Offences committed by people’s representatives should be severely and promptly punished. No one has the right to claim to be more inviolable than other citizens.

XXXIII. Les délits des mandataires du peuple doivent être sévèrement et facilement punis. Nul n'a le droit de se prétendre plus inviolable que les autres citoyens.

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