King Stanisław II August, Stanisław Małachowski, Hugo Kołłątaj, Ignacy Potocki, Stanisław Staszic, Scipione Piattoli, et al.

“ The King’s person is sacred and inviolable; as no act can proceed immediately from him, he cannot be in any manner responsible to the nation; he is not an absolute monarch, but the father, and the head of the people; his revenues, as fixed by the pacta conventa, shall be sacredly preserved. All public acts, the acts of magistracies, and the coin of the kingdom, shall bear his name. ”

“ The compliment of the Diet shall be composed of the number of persons in both Houses, to be determined hereafter.
The law concerning the dietines, or primary elections, as established by the present 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. ”

“ If it should happen that two thirds of secret votes in both Houses demand the changing of any person, either in the Council, or any executive department, the King is bound to nominate another.
Willing that the Council of Inspection should be responsible to the nation for their actions, we decree that, when these Ministers are denounced and accused before the Diet (by the Special Committee appointed for examining their proceedings) of any transgression of positive law, they are answerable with their persons and fortunes. ”

“ Every particular law or statute of the Diet in matters above specified, as soon as it has been determined by the House of Nuncios, and sent up to the Senate, the votes of both Houses shall be jointly computed, and the majority, as described by law, shall be considered as a decree and the will of the nation.
Those Senators and Ministers who, from their share in executive power, are accountable to the Republic, cannot have an active voice in the Diet, but may be present in order to give necessary explanations to the States. ”

“ We acknowledge the rank of the noble Equestrian order in Poland to be equal to all degrees of nobility—all persons of that order to be equal among themselves, not only in the eligibility to all posts of honour, trust, or emolument, but in the enjoyment of all privileges and prerogatives appertaining to the said order: and in particular, we preserve and guarantee to every individual thereof personal liberty and security of territorial and moveable property as they were formerly enjoyed ”

“ As judicial power is incompatible with the legislative, nor can be administered by the King, therefore tribunals and magistratures ought to be established and elected. It ought to have local existence, that every citizen should know where to seek justice, and every transgressor can discern the hand of national government. ”

“ In regard to the House of Senate, it is to consist of Bishops, Palatines, Castellans, and Ministers, under the presidency of the King, who shall have but one vote, and the casting voice in case of parity, which he may give either personally, or by a message to the House. Its power and duty shall be,
1st. Every general law that passes formally through the House of Nuncios is to be sent immediately to this, which is either accepted, or suspended till farther national deliberation, by a majority of votes, as scribed by law. If accepted, it becomes a law in all its force ”

“ It is in this order that we repose the defence of our liberties and the present constitution: it is to their virtue, valour, honour, and patriotism, we recommend its dignity to venerate, and its stability to defend, as the only bulwark of our liberty and existence.
ARTICLE III.
Towns and Citizens. ”

“ This agricultural class of people, the most numerous in the nation, consequently forming the most considerable part of its force, from whose hands flows the source of our riches, we receive under the protection of national law and government, from the motives of justice, humanity, christianity, and our own interest well understood ”

“ In both cases this Tutor, named by the States, is to make his report before each ordinary Diet of the education and progress of the Princes. The Commission, or Board of Education, is obliged to bring before the Diet, for the approbation, an instruction or plan for the education of the Princes, founded on religion, love of virtue, of country, of liberty, and the constitution.
ARTICLE XI.
National Force, or the Army.
The nation is bound to preserve its possessions against invasion; therefore all inhabitants are natural defenders of their country and its liberties. ”

“ Thus having insured to the proprietors every advantage they have a right to from their villagers, and willing to encourage most effectually the population of our country, we publish and proclaim a perfect and entire liberty to all people, either who may be newly coming to settle, or those who, having emigrated, would return to their native country ”

“ Should all the Members refuse their countersign to any resolution, the King is obliged to forego his opinion; but if he should persist in it, the Marshal of the Diet; and if the King will not, the Marshal himself shall send his circular letters as above.
Ministers composing this Council cannot be employed at the same time in any other commission or department. ”