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Council, the higheſt power of executing the laws.
This Council ſhall be called Straz, or the Council of Inſpection.
The duty of ſuch executive power ſhall be to watch over the laws, and to ſee them ſtrictly executed according to their import, even by the means of public force, ſhould it be neceſſary.
All departments and magiſtracies are bound to obey its directions. To this power we leave the right of controling ſuch as are refractory, or of puniſhing ſuch as are negligent in the execution of their reſpective offices.
This executive power cannot aſſume the right of making laws, or of their inter-
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