be fo facilitated that no perfon may be detained in prifon more than ten-days after he fhall have demanded and been refufed fuch writ by the judge appointed by law, or if none be appointed, then by any judge of a fuperior court, nor more than ten days after fuch writ fhall have been ferved on the perfon detaining him, and no order given, on due examination, for his remandntent or difcharge.
The military fhall be fubordinate to the civil power.
Printing-prefTes fhall be fubjeft to no other reftraint than liablenefs to legal pro- fecution for falfe fa6ls printed and pub- liOied.
Any two of the three branches of government concuring in opinion, each by the voices of two-thirds of their whole ex- ifting number, that a convention is necef- fary for altering this conftitution, or cor- refting breaches of it, they fhall be autho- rifed to iflue writs to every county for the eleftion of fo many delegates as they are authorifed to fend to the general aflembly, which elections fliall be held, and writs re- turned, as the laws fhall have provided in the cafe of eledtionsof delegates of affem- bly, mutatis mutandis, and the faid de- legates Ihall meet at the ufual place of holding aflemblies, three months after date of fuch writs, and (hall be acknowledged to have equal powers with this prefent convention. The fald writs fhall be figned by all the members approving the fame.
To introduce this government , the following fpecial and temporary provifion is made.
This convention being authorifed only to amend thofe laws which conftituted the form of government, no general difTolution of the whole fyftem of laws can be fup- pofed to have taken place: but all laws in force at the meeting of this convention, [ 4^9 ] and not inconfiftent with this conftitution, remain in full force, fubjeft to alterations by the ordinary legiflature.