§ 19. Social status [Stand], birth, religion, and personal relations of any kind make no difference in acquiring civil rights. Conventional preferences for the children of citizens and special kinds of responsibilities for the unmarried, etc., also cease completely. However, cantonists, soldiers, minors, and Jews can only be granted civil rights under the proper conditions. [ . . . ]
§ 25. Anyone who wants to be a citizen is obligated to take the citizens’ oath before the magistrate, and must commit himself therein to upholding this ordinance and to promoting the best interest of the city as well as he is able.
§ 26. Every citizen has an obligation to make the necessary contributions from his wealth and abilities and generally to bear a proportionate share of all the city's burdens [Lasten].
§ 27. He is obligated to take over public city offices as soon as he is called to do so, and to submit to the orders given to him for the best of the commonwealth of the city. [ . . . ]
Title V. Regarding the Citizenry [Stadtgemeine].
§ 46. The city community or the citizenry amounts to the embodiment of all the citizens of the city. Therefore all of those who have been entered in the register of citizens are to be considered members of the citizenry.
§ 47. The magistrate of the locality is the principal of the city, to whose orders the citizenry are subject. Its members and candidates for public city offices are nominated and elected by the citizenry.
§ 48. The citizenry itself is represented in all matters of the commonwealth by the city officials [Stadtverordnete]. It is authorized to elect the same from its midst. [ . . . ]
§ 50. In this statute, which the magistrate of the locality drafts and through which the city officials make their position known, it shall be more carefully specified which trades can be conducted by the dependents of the city and which require civil rights. [ . . . ]
§ 55. The city institutions and foundations that are identified for the common or public good are subject to the supervision of the citizenry.
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