(12) The election of the Deputies to the National Representative body shall
be by universal suffrage, with equal, direct and secret ballot. The same
shall apply to the elections in the Communes and other administrative
units. Elections will take place in each Commune.
(13) The Constitution, to be established after the conclusion of peace by a
Constituent Assembly elected by universal suffrage, with direct and secret
ballot, will be the basis of the entire life of the State; it will be the
source and the consummation of all authority and of all rights by which the
entire life of the nation will be regulated.
The Constitution will provide the nation with the possibility of exercising
its special energies in local autonomies delimited by natural, social and
economic conditions.
The Constitution must be passed in its entirety by a numerically defined
majority in the Constituent Assembly. The Constitution, like all other laws
passed by the Constituent Assembly, will only come into force after having
received the Royal sanction.
The nation of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, thus unified, will form a
State of about twelve million inhabitants. This State will be the guarantee
for their independence and national development, and their national and
intellectual progress in general, a mighty bulwark against the German
thrust, an inseparable ally of all the civilized nations and states
which have proclaimed the principle of right and liberty and that of
international justice.
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