Constitution

From Roach Busters

1) To enact and order the publication of the Codes;

2) To establish Tribunals and regulate the administration of justice and of contentious-administrative matters;

3) To enact laws relating to the independence, security, tranquility, and decorum of the Republic; the protection of all individual rights and the fostering of public works, social welfare, public health, public education, agriculture, labor, finances and economy, industry, and domestic and foreign trade;

4) To interpret, amend, and repeal existing laws;

5) To create and abolish public posts and assign to them the proper emoluments, with the exception of those whose creation or abolition devolves on other bodies according to the law;

6) To examine infractions of the Constitution and do what is necessary in order to make effective the responsibility of those who infringe it;

7) To pass political judgment on the conduct of the Ministers of State, in accordance with the provisions of Section VIII;

8) To enact the electoral law;

9) To impose the necessary taxes to meet budgetary expenditures, provide for their distribution, collection and appropriation, and to repeal, modify, or increase those in existence;

10) To approve each year the estimate of receipts and in the same law to fix the expenditures of the public administration.

Congress cannot approve any new expenditure chargeable to the funds of the Nation without at the same time creating or indicating the sources of revenue necessary to provide for this expenditure;

11) To recognize the national debt and indicate the means for its consolidation and amortization;

12) To establish mints; to fix the content, weight, type and denomination of the currency; and to provide a system of weights and measures;

13) To approve or reject the treaties, conventions, concordats, and other international agreements signed on behalf of the Republic, and to authorize the executive branch to declare war and conclude peace;

14) To permit or prohibit the entry of foreign troops into the territory of the Republic, and in the former case, to fix the time when they must depart;

15) To refuse or permit the expedition of national forces outside the Republic, in the latter case fixing the time for their return to the country;

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