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The Argentine Civil Code (effective January 1st, 1871)
The Argentine Civil Code - effective January 1st, 1871 Author:Argentina Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONSTITUTION OF THE ARGENTINE NATION. We, the representatives of the Argentine Nation, in General Constituent Congress assembled by the will and electio... more »n of the Provinces which compose it, in fulfillment of previous agreements, for the purpose of forming the national union, establishing justice, insuring domestic peace, providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing the benefits of liberty to ourselves, our posterity, and to all men in the world who may desire to inhabit the Argentine soil; invoking the protection of God, the source of all reason and justice, ordain, decree, and establish this Constitution for the Argentine Nation. PART I. FIRST AND LAST CHAPTER. Declarations, Rights, and Guaranties. Article 1. The Argentine Nation adopts for its Government the Federal Republican Representative form, as established by this Constitution. 2. The Federal Government supports the Roman Catholic Apostolic Faith. 3. The authorities who exercise the Federal Government shall reside in the city which may, by a special act of Congress,be declared the capital of the RepublicL upon the cession by one or more of the Provincial Legislatures of the territory to be federalized. 4. The Federal Government shall defray the expenses of the Nation out of funds of the National Treasury, derived from the proceeds of import and export duties, until eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in accordance with the provisions of subdivision i of Article 6?; from the sale or lease of lands of national ownership; from the postal revenues; from the other taxes which the General Congress may levy equitably and in proportion to the population, and from the loans and operations of credit which said Congress may decree to provide for urgent needs of the Nation or for...« less