THE KINGDOMS AND LANDS OF THE CROWN OF RUTHENIA AND THE LANDS REPRESENTED IN THE COUNCIL OF KARNIA
HIS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MAJESTY’S OWN OFFICE
HIS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MAJESTY’S OWN OFFICE
We, the Successor to the prosperous Throne of Our Predecessors, do humbly and solemnly swear to Our Government and Our Nation that, in pursuance of a great policy co-extensive with the Natural Law and with the People, We shall maintain and secure from decline the traditional form of government.
In consideration of the progressive tendency of the course of human affairs and in parallel with the advance of civilization, We deem it expedient, in order to give clearness and distinctness to the instructions bequeathed by Our Imperial Ancestors and by Our political national history, to establish fundamental laws formulated into express provisions of law, so that, on the one hand, Our Imperial posterity may possess an express guide for the course they are to follow, and that, on the other, Our subjects shall thereby be enabled to enjoy a wider range of action in giving Us their support, and that the observance of Our laws shall continue to the remotest ages of time. We will thereby to give greater firmness to the stability of Our country and to promote the welfare of all the people within the boundaries of Our dominions; and We now establish the Constitution. These Laws come to only an exposition of grand precepts for the conduct of the government, bequeathed by Our political, legal and philosophical developments in political conduct. That we have been so fortunate in Our reign, in keeping with the tendency of the times, as to accomplish this work, We owe to the joint effort of Our Government, Our subjects and Our jurists, which resulted in the democratic establishment of the Constitutional Commission and its final result, the Constitution.
We now reverently make Our oath to them, and call for the help of their endeavor, and make before the Constitution solemn oath never at this time nor in the future to fail to be an example to Our subjects in the observance of the Laws hereby established.
May the whole nation, of today and of tomorrow, witness Our solemn Oath.
In consideration of the progressive tendency of the course of human affairs and in parallel with the advance of civilization, We deem it expedient, in order to give clearness and distinctness to the instructions bequeathed by Our Imperial Ancestors and by Our political national history, to establish fundamental laws formulated into express provisions of law, so that, on the one hand, Our Imperial posterity may possess an express guide for the course they are to follow, and that, on the other, Our subjects shall thereby be enabled to enjoy a wider range of action in giving Us their support, and that the observance of Our laws shall continue to the remotest ages of time. We will thereby to give greater firmness to the stability of Our country and to promote the welfare of all the people within the boundaries of Our dominions; and We now establish the Constitution. These Laws come to only an exposition of grand precepts for the conduct of the government, bequeathed by Our political, legal and philosophical developments in political conduct. That we have been so fortunate in Our reign, in keeping with the tendency of the times, as to accomplish this work, We owe to the joint effort of Our Government, Our subjects and Our jurists, which resulted in the democratic establishment of the Constitutional Commission and its final result, the Constitution.
We now reverently make Our oath to them, and call for the help of their endeavor, and make before the Constitution solemn oath never at this time nor in the future to fail to be an example to Our subjects in the observance of the Laws hereby established.
May the whole nation, of today and of tomorrow, witness Our solemn Oath.
