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... They shall enjoy without contradiction, the Right
of Suffrage in all Deliberations touching the Affairs of the Empire; but
above all, when the Business in hand shall be the making or interpreting
of Laws, the declaring of Wars, imposing of Taxes, levying or quartering
of Soldiers, erecting new Fortifications in the Territorys of the States,
or reinforcing the old Garisons; as also when a Peace of Alliance is to
be concluded, and treated about, or the like, none of these, or the like
things shall be acted for the future, without the Suffrage and Consent
of the Free Assembly of all the States of the Empire: Above all, it shall
be free perpetually to each of the States of the Empire, to make Alliances
with Strangers for their Preservation and Safety; provided, nevertheless,
such Alliances be not against the Emperor, and the Empire, nor against
the Publick Peace, and this Treaty, and without prejudice to the Oath by
which every one is bound to the Emperor and the Empire. ...
... And that the publick Peace may be so much the
better preserv’d intire, the Circles shall be renew’d; and as soon as any
Beginnings of Troubles are perceiv’d, that which has been concluded in
the Constitutions, of the Empire, touching the Execution and Preservation
of the Public Peace, shall be observ’d. ...
... And as often as any would march Troops thro’ the
other Territorys, this Passage shall be done at the charge of him whom
the Troops belong to, and that without burdening or doing any harm or damage
to those whole Countrys they march thro’. In a word, all that the Imperial
Constitutions determine and ordain touching the Preservation of the publick
Peace, shall be strictly observ’d. ...