4. The right to declare war and to make peace rests with the king.
5. The king shall have the right of pardon.
6. The judicial power shall be separate from the legislative and executive power.
7. There shall be liberty of the press.
8. The evangelical Lutheran religion shall remain the religion of the state and of the king.
9. Personal or mixed hereditary privileges shall not be granted to anybody in the future.
10. All citizens, irrespective of station, birth, or property, shall be required to render military service for a certain length of time.
Upon the basis of these principles the constitution was drawn and finally adopted on the 17th day of May, 1814. On the same day Christian Frederick was elected king of Norway. He accepted the election and solemnly made oath to the constitution, May 19, whereupon the members of the diet swore allegiance to the constitution and to the new king. They held their last meeting on May 20, in order to sign the record of the proceedings. That done, they formed a circular chain, each person giving his right hand to his neighbor on the left, and his left hand to his neighbor on the right, and standing thus, hand in hand, they all exclaimed in chorus: “United and true, until Dovre (mountain) falls!”