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252 No one can be forced to contribute to the expenses of a religion. The Republic does not pay a stipend to any of them.

355. There is neither privilege, nor mastership, nor jurande, nor limitation upon the liberty of the press, of commerce, and the pursuit of industry and the arts of every kind.

Every prohibitive law of this sort, when circumstances render it necessary, is essentially provisional and has effect only for one year at most, unless it be formally renewed.

356. The law particularly watches over the professions which affect the public morals, the security and the health of the citizens ; but admission to the practice of these professions cannot be made dependent upon any pecuniary payment.

357. The law shall provide for the reward of inventors or for the maintenance of an exclusive property in their discoveries or their productions.

358. The constitution guarantees the inviolability of all properties or just indemnification for those of which legally established public necessity may demand the sacrifice.

359. The house of each citizen is an inviolable asylum; during the night no one has the right to enter it except in the case of fire, flood, or call from the interior of the house.

During the day the orders of the constituted authorities can be put into execution there.

No domiciliary visit can take place except in virtue of a law and for the person or object expressly designated in the document which orders the visit.

360. Corporations or associations contrary to the public order cannot be formed.

361. No assembly of citizens can style itself a popular society.

362. No private society occupying itself with political questions can correspond with another, or affiliate with it, or hold public sittings composed of the members of the society and of associates distinguished from one another, or impose conditions of admission and eligibility, or arrogate to itself rights of exclusion, or cause its members to wear any external sign of their association.

363. Citizens cannot exercise their political rights except in the primary or communal assemblies.