Art. 78. The secretaries of state shall be personally responsible for the measures signed by them, and jointly and severally for the measures agreed upon or authorized by them at a cabinet meeting. This responsibility does not exclude the personal and direct responsibility of the President of the Republic.
Art. 79. The secretaries of state shall be impeachable before the Senate by the House of Representatives in the[{227}] cases mentioned in the second paragraph of article 47.
Art. 80. The secretaries of state shall receive from the State a salary, which may be changed at any time, but the change shall not go into effect until the next following presidential term.
Title X
THE JUDICIAL POWER
Section First
THE EXERCISE OF THE JUDICIAL POWER
Art. 81. The judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court of Justice and in all the other tribunals which may be established by law. The law shall regulate the respective organization and powers of these tribunals, the manner of exercising their powers, and the qualifications required of the judicial functionaries.
Section Second
THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE
Art. 82. To be Chief Justice or Associate Justice of the Supreme Court the following qualifications shall be required:
1. To be a Cuban by birth.
2. To be over thirty-five years of age.
3. To be in the full enjoyment of civil and political rights and not to have been condemned to any corporal punishment for common offenses.