Footnote 741: Arts. 149-161. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 110-112.[(Back)]
Footnote 742: Arts. 162-166. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 112-113.[(Back)]
Footnote 743: Arts. 127-141. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 105-108.[(Back)]
Footnote 744: Arts. 142-148. Ibid., II., 108-110.[(Back)]
Footnote 745: Art. 25. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, I., 130.[(Back)]
Footnote 746: Art. 131. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, I., 146. The text of the constitution of Belgium, in English translation, is printed in Dodd, Modern Constitutions, I., 126-148, and in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May, 1896, Supplement (translation by J. M. Vincent). French texts of the constitution and of important laws will be found in F. Larcier, Code politique et administratif de la Belgique (2d ed., Brussels, 1893). The standard commentary is J. J. Thonissen, La constitution belge (3d ed., Brussels, 1879). Works of value relating to the amendments of 1893-1894 are C. Thiebault et A. Henry, Commentaire législatif des articles révisés de la constitution belge (Brussels, 1894), and Beltjens, La constitution belge révisée (Liège, 1895). The best treatises on the Belgian constitutional system are P. Errera, Das Staatsrecht des Königreichs Belgien (Tübingen, 1909), and Traité de droit public belge: droit constitutionnel, droit administratif (Paris, 1908), and O. Orban, Le droit constitutionnel de la Belgique, 3 vols. (Liège, 1906-1911). An older but excellent work is A. Giron, La droit public de la Belgique (Brussels, 1884). A convenient elementary book on the subject is F. Masson et C. Wiliquet, Manuel de droit constitutionnel (7th ed., Brussels, 1904). A useful volume is E. Flandin, Institutions politiques de l'Europe contemporaine (2d ed., Paris, 1907), I.[(Back)]
Footnote 747: This privilege was conferred by an amendment (Art. 61) adopted September 7, 1893.[(Back)]
Footnote 748: Arts. 60, 79-85. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, I., 136, 138-139.[(Back)]
Footnote 749: The minister of war, regularly an active military official, has been usually not a legislative member. Aside from this one post, however, the custom of selecting ministers exclusively from the chambers has been followed almost as rigorously in Belgium as in Great Britain. And so largely are the ministers taken from the lower house that the Senate not infrequently has no representative at all in the cabinet.[(Back)]
Footnote 750: Arts. 86-91. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, I., 139-140.[(Back)]