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- Landed nobles.... We guarantee... to the body of the nobility... all its liber-
ties, immunities and prerogatives, likewise the preeminence pertaining to it in pri-
vate as in public life, and notably the rights and privileges granted to this estate by
Casimir the Great, Louis of Hungary, Ladislas Jagellon etc.... We declare the
noble estate in Poland equal in dignity to that of all other countries; we establish
the most perfect equality among all members of this body, not only in the right of
possessing all offices in the republic, and filling all honorable and lucrative func-
tions, but also in the liberty of uniformly enjoying all liberties and prerogatives
attributed to the equestrian order. It is our will above all that individual liberty and
security, and property in real and personal estate... shall be forever respected in
each citizen.... - Towns and Burghers. It is our will that the law decreed by the present diet,
under the title, Our royal towns declared free throughout the extent of the republic, shall
have full and entire force... and be regarded as forming part of the present
constitution. - Coloni [colons, field workers, serfs] and other inhabitants of rural districts. [Hu-
mane principles favored; agreements made between owners and serfs must be
respected.]
5– 11. [Executive, legislative, judicial, military organs of the state.]
Translated from the complete French text in the Moniteur (Paris), May 24, 1791.
5. The Hungarian Coronation Oath of
AS PRESCRIBED IN THE DIPLOMA AGREED TO
BY LEOPOLD II AND THE HUNGARIAN DIETWe, Leopold II, by grace of God elected Emperor of the Romans, always august;
of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, etc., Apostolic King;
Archduke of Austria, etc.: As king of the aforesaid Kingdom of Hungary and
other kingdoms and regions annexed to the same, we swear by the living God, and
by His most holy mother the Virgin Mary, and by all the saints, to preserve the
churches of God, the lords prelates, the barons, magnates, nobles, free cities and all
inhabitants of the realm in their immunities, liberties, rights, laws, privileges and
good and approved ancient customs; and to do justice to all....
Translated from Corpus juris hungarici, 5 vols. (Budapest, 1901), V, 150.
- BELGIUM: THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE OF BRABANT, 1789
The three Estates representing the people of the Duchy of Brabant, having decreed
on December 26 and 27, and also on December 29 and 30, 1789, the following
points... :