OF THE STATE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.--THE
PROPOSERS OF LAWS.
ARTICLE 56.--The executive power resides in the State
President, who is responsible to the Volksraad. He is chosen by a
majority of the burghers entitled to vote, and for the term of five
years. He is eligible for re-election. He must have attained the age of
thirty years, and need not be a burgher of the State at the time of his
nomination, and must be a member of a Protestant Church, and have no
dishonouring sentence pronounced against him. (By a subsequent law the
President must be chosen from _among_ the burghers; he _must_ be a
burgher. Outsiders are excluded.)
ARTICLE 57.--The President is the first or highest official of
the State. All civil servants are subordinate to him; such, however, as
are charged with exercise of the judicial power are left altogether free
and independent in its exercise.
ARTICLE 58.--As long as the President holds his position as
such he shall fill no other, nor shall he discharge any ecclesiastical
office, nor carry on any business. The President cannot go outside the
boundaries of the State without consent of the Volksraad. However, the
Executive Council shall have the power to grant him leave to go outside
the boundaries of the State upon private affairs in cases of necessity.
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