ARTICLE 7.--The land or farms situate in this territory which
have not yet been given out, are declared to be the property of the
State.
ARTICLE 8.--The people claim the utmost social freedom, and
expect the result from the maintenance of their religious belief, from
the observance of their obligations, from submission to law, order and
right, and the maintenance of the same.
The people permit the spread of the Gospel among the heathen under fixed
precautions against deceit or misleading.
ARTICLE 9.--The people will not allow any equalization of the
coloured inhabitants with the white.
ARTICLE 10.--The people will not suffer any slave trade or
slavery in this Republic.
ARTICLE 11.--The people reserve to themselves the protection
and defence of the independence and inviolability of the State, subject
to the laws.
ARTICLE 12.--The people entrust the legislation to a
Volksraad--the highest authority in the land--consisting of
representatives or deputies of the people, chosen by the enfranchised
burghers; but with the reservation that a period of three months shall
be left to the people to enable them if they so wish to communicate to
the Volksraad their verdict on a proposed law; except those laws which
can suffer no delay.
ARTICLE 13.
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