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Rh 343. All the articles of the constitution, without exception, continue in force until the changes proposed by the assembly of revision have been accepted by the people.

344. The members of the assembly of revision deliberate in common.

345. The citizens who are members of the legislative body at the moment when an assembly of revision is convoked cannot be elected members of this assembly.

346. The assembly of revision despatches directly to the primary assemblies the project of reform which it has agreed upon. It is dissolved when this project has been despatched to them.

347. The duration of the assembly of revision cannot in any case exceed three months.

348. The members of the assembly of revision cannot be questioned, accused, nor tried at any time for what they have said or written in the exercise of their functions.

During the continuance of these functions they cannot be put on trial except by a decision of their fellow members of the assembly of revision.

349. The assembly of revision does not participate in any public ceremony; its members receive the same compensation as that of the members of the legislative body.

350. The assembly of revision has the right to exercise or to cause to be exercised the police power in the commune where it resides.

Title XIV. General Provisions

351. There exists among the citizens no other superiority than that of the public functionaries and that only in relation to the exercise of their functions.

352. The law does not recognize religious vows nor any obligation contrary to the natural rights of man.

353. No one can be prevented from speaking, writing, printing, or publishing his ideas.

Writings cannot be made subject to any censorship before their publication.

No one can be held responsible for what he has written or published, except in the cases provided for by law.

354. No one can be prevented from engaging in the worship which he has chosen, while he conforms to the laws.