The people permit the spread of the Gospel among the heathen under fixed precautions against deceit or misleading.
Article 9.—The people will not allow any equalization of the coloured inhabitants with the white.
Article 10.—The people will not suffer any slave trade or slavery in this Republic.
Article 11.—The people reserve to themselves the protection and defence of the independence and inviolability of the State, subject to the laws.
Article 12.—The people entrust the legislation to a Volksraad—the highest authority in the land—consisting of representatives or deputies of the people, chosen by the enfranchised burghers; but with the reservation that a period of three months shall be left to the people to enable them if they so wish to communicate to the Volksraad their verdict on a proposed law; except those laws which can suffer no delay.
Article 13.—The people charge the President with the task of proposing and executing the laws; he also brings before the Volksraad the appointments of all civil servants for ratification.
Article 14.—The people entrust the maintenance of order to the military force, the police, and other persons appointed by the law for that purpose.
Article 15.—The people place the judicial power in the hands of a Supreme Court, Circuit Court, Landrosts, Juries, and such other persons as shall be entrusted with judicial powers, and leave all these free to discharge their function according to their judgment and consciences, according to the laws of the land.
Article 16.—The people shall receive annually from the Volksraad an estimate of the general income and expenses of the State, and learn therefrom how much every man's taxes shall amount to.
Article 17.—Potchefstrom, situated on the Mooi River, shall be the capital of the Republic, and Pretoria the seat of Government.