Riom's lawyers. - Lot 137

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Riom's lawyers. - Lot 137
Riom's lawyers. Lawyers, bâtonniers and board members. Riom, November 30, 1852. 2 pp. in folio. Après avoir vu deux consultations délibérées par ... MMᵣs Durier Herold, Floquet, Clamagérant, Dréo, Ferrys et Hamel... les avocats à la cour de Riom adopt ... les motifs développés dans ces deux consultations et considérant que sous la constitution du 14 janvier 1852 l'élection a pour base la population (art. 34) and that there must be one deputy to the legislative body for each 35,000 electors (art. 35)... They consider ... that there must be one deputy to the legislative body for each 35,000 electors (art. 35); Considering that the Organic Decree of February 2, 1852, declares all French citizens over 21 years of age and in possession of their civil and political rights to be electors, without any condition of cens; Considering that the compilation of electoral rolls is only a necessary and material means of ensuring the exercise of the right to vote; (...) failure to register cannot take away this right from French citizens who derive their status as electors from the constitution itself, as soon as they have fulfilled the conditions imposed by the constitution; Whereas the spirit of the constitutional act is to bring the number of members of the legislative body into line with that of the population (...) Whereas the errors of the administration responsible for drawing up the electoral rolls, (...) constitute a double cause tending to prevent the electoral lists from being a faithful representation of the number of French people invested with the quality of voter; Considering that the operation of the census presents on the contrary an infallible means of recognizing the figure of all the electoral population and that it would be enough to subtract from it the persons become incapable, (...), carried out for other reasons, by the agents of the Government; Considering that between two means proposed for a measure as important as that which tends to regulate the number of representatives of the country in the legislative body, it is only fair to choose the one which best meets the views of the constitution and (...) Consider, (...) that the number of deputies to the legislative body, (...) in accordance with the Organic Decree of February 2, 1852, must be calculated (...) according to the number of voters, registered or not registered...
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