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ſent Diet, ſhall be regarded as a moſt eſſential foundation of civil liberty.
The majority of votes ſhall decide every thing, and every where; therefore we aboliſh, and utterly annihilate, liberum veto, all ſorts of confederacies and confederate Diets, as contrary to the ſpirit of the preſent conſtitution, as undermining the government, and as being ruinous to ſociety.
Willing to prevent, on one hand, violent and frequent changes in the national conſtitution, yet conſidering, on the other, the neceſſity of perfecting it, after experiencing its effects on public proſperity, we determine the period of every twenty-five years for an Extraordinary Conſtitutional Diet, to be held purpoſely for the reviſion and ſuch alterations of the conſtitution as may be found requiſite; which Diet
