26. This sovereignty is one, indivisible, imprescriptible, and inalienable.
27. It resides essentially in the whole people, and every citizen has an equal right to unite in its exercise.
28. No partial assemblage of citizens, and no individual, may attribute to themselves sovereignty, or exercise any authority, or discharge any public function, without formal delegation thereto by the law.
29. The social guarantee cannot exist if the limits of public administration are not clearly determined by law, and if the responsibility of all public functionaries is not assured.
30. All citizens are bound to unite in this guarantee, and in enforcing the law when summoned in its name.
31. Men united in society should have legal means of resisting oppression.
32. There is oppression when any law violates the natural rights, civil and political, which it should guarantee.
There is oppression when the law is violated by public officials in its application to individual cases.
There is oppression when arbitrary actions violate the rights of citizen against the express purpose (expression) of the law.
In a free government the mode of resisting these different acts of oppression should be regulated by the Constitution.