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prudent, wise, & considerate of each province, namely a noble, a citizen from the city & one from the towns & villages, which assembled, would make the number of three hundred & sixty that one would call the body of the Estates General,[1] which would represent the entire public & would make perpetual residence in Sangil to give advice & counsel to the King & to his council of all things that they would deem useful and honorable for the public good to consent or reject what they would please, to receive the mandates of his Majesty, to send them to the Provinces & to report to the council what the provinces would have charged them with, & to act in the end as if the whole public had been assembled. Furthermore, it was ordered that each of the deputies would be dressed in the colors of his province & would wear the arms of the capital cities on the chest & on the back with the name of the same, so they would be recognizable, & that such ornaments would make the Court more illustrious & magnificent. Their offices were limited to one year only, both to prevent the corruption that creep in through excessive prolongation of the positions & offices, well as to make more of the citizenry capable of handling affairs & to recognize their value and merit through the administration of these. |
| 1. Whereas he Estate General of France was composed of the three estates representing the nobles, the clergy & the commoner, here in Antangil they had separation of church & state & neither the upper or lower houses of this Antangil'sbicameral legislature was restricted to noblemen. |