“ If, after the execution of a criminal sentence, it subsequently comes to be proved by legal means to have been unjust, the condemned person or his heirs shall have the right to compensation for losses and damages, which shall be paid by the National Treasury after judgment has been passed in conformity with the law. ”

“ Every citizen may present to the powers of the State claims, < complaints and petitions, they may report any infringement of the Constitution, and may, without any previous authorization, demand from the competent authorities the punishment of offenders. ”

“ In cases not provided for by law, no one, even if mentally abnormal, can be deprived of his personal liberty, without previous judicial sanction, except in cases of duly proved necessity, the proper judicial confirmation being immediately applied for. ”

“ The nation does not renounce the rights which it has or may hereafter acquire to any other territory.
Title II. — Individual Rights and Guarantees.
Art. 3. The Constitution guarantees to Portuguese and foreigners resident in the country the inviolability of their rights with regard to liberty, personal security and property, in the following terms :
1. No one can be forced to do anything, or to desist from doing anything, except by virtue of a law.
2. The law is equal for all, but only that which has been promul- gated in the terms of this Constitution is binding. ”

“ Art. 82. The Constitution of the Portuguese Eepublic shall be revised every 10 years beginning with the promulgation of the present one, and for this purpose constituent powers shall be held by the Congress whose mandate embraces the period of revision. ”

“ All Portuguese, each according to his capacity, are bound to military service in order to sustain the independence and integrity of the country and Constitution and to defend them from their enemies, internal and external.
Art. 69. The public forces are essentially obedient and can not formulate petitions or collective representations nor meet together, •except with the authority of or by order of the competent authori- ties. Armed bodies can not deliberate. ”

“ No one is obliged to pay taxes which have not been voted by the legislative power or by the administrative bodies legally author- ized to impose them, when their collection is not effected in the manner prescribed by the law. ”

“ If none of the candidates obtain an absolute majority, the election will continue, at a third voting, only as between the two who hav& obtained the highest number of votes, the one obtaining the highest number of votes being finally elected.
§ 2. In the case of a vacancy occurring in the Presidency, through death or any other cause, the two houses, united in Congress of the Republic on their own prerogative, shall forthwith proceed to the election of a new President, who shall exercise his functions during the presidential period still to run. ”

“ Any person interned or detained in a lunatic establishment or placed under private restraint, and also his legal representative or any relative or friend, may at any time call on the judge concerned to set him at liberty, after the necessary inquiries have been made, should there be good cause to do so. ”

“ Each minister is responsible politically, civilly and crim- inally for his legislative and executive acts.
Ministers shall be tried for crimes of breach of duty which theyj may commit or sanction by the ordinary courts.
Art. 52. Ministers must appear in the session of Congress andj shall always have the right to be heard in defense of their acts.
Art. 53. One of the ministers, who shall also be appointed by the President of the Republic, shall be President of the Ministry and shall answer not only for the affairs of his office, but also for general policy. ”

“ Trial by jury shall be optional in civil and commercial cases and obligatory in criminal cases, when a penalty more severe than correctional is provided for the crime committed or when the offense is of political origin or character. ”

“ Art. 50. Ministers can not hold positions in any other employ-" ment or public charge, nor be elected to the office of President of the Republic, unless they have ceased to hold office six months before the date of the election.
§ 1. Members of Congress Avho accept the post of minister shall not lose their mandate. ”

“ To represent the nation as regards foreign States and to di- rect the external affairs of the Republic without prejudice to the at- tributions of Congress.
6. To proclaim, with the approval of the ministers and for a . period not exceeding 30 days, a state of siege in any part of the na- tional territory in cases of foreign attack or serious internal dis- turbance, according to the terms of §§ 1, 2 and 3 of No. 16 of Article 26 of this Constitution. ”

“ Judges belonging to the section of the judicial magistra- ture hold office for life and are irremovable, and their nomination, dismissal, suspension, promotion, transfer and appointment outside their section shall be made in accordance with the forms of the or- ganic law concerning the judicial power. ”

“ Art. 33. A bill brought in by one house and amended by the other hhall be returned to the first, which, if it accept the amendments, j ”

“ Art. it. No deputy or senator shall be arrested or imprisoned dur- ing the period of the sessions without the previous consent of his house, except in case of flagrante delicto^, to which is applicable the " greater penalty " ^ or its equivalent in the penal scale. ”