Note XXVI-2 — Chapter XXVI · FURTHER WARS AND REVOLUTIONS. 1863-1885.
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Dated July 4, 1863, and published the 6th of the same month. It contained 21 titles covering 112 articles, and was a most liberal fundamental law, intending to give, if honestly administered, every possible guaranty of life, liberty, property, and political rights. The death penalty, torture, and other cruel punishments were done away with. Corporal punishment in no case was to exceed ten years. Nearly all the public functionaries, representative, executive, and judicial, were made elective by popular vote. Id., July 11, 1863; Bidwell's Isth. Pan., 364-88.