[Non-official translation]
CONSTITUTION OF LUXEMBOURG
Chapter I The State, its Territory, and the Grand Duke
Article 1
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a democratic, free, independent, and indivisible State.
Article 2
The boundaries and chief towns of judicial or administrative districts and of cantons and communes may only be changed pursuant to a law.
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Chapter II Luxembourgers and Their Rights[1].
Article 9
(1) The status of Luxembourger
shall be acquired, retained, and lost in accordance with the rules determined
by civil law.
(2) The Constitution and the other laws regarding political rights determine
what conditions in addition to this status are necessary for the exercise
of these rights.
(3) By way of derogation from the preceding paragraph, the law may confer
the exercise of political rights to non-Luxembourgers. [Revision of December
23, 1994]
Article 10
(1) Naturalization is
granted by the legislature.
(2) The law determines the effects of naturalization. [Revision of Mai
6, 1948]
Article 10 bis [Revision of April 29, 1999]
(1) Luxembourgers are
equal before the law.
(2) They may be admitted to all public, civil, and military occupations; the
law determines the admittance to these occupations for the non-Luxembourger.
Article 11
(1) There is no distinction
of orders in the State. [Revision of May 21, 1948]
(2) (Repealed by the revision introduced on April 29, 1999, cf. art. 10bis
Const)
(3) The State guarantees the natural rights of the individual and of the family.
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Article 23
(1) The State ensures that every Luxembourger receives primary education, which is compulsory and provided free of charge, and the access to it shall be guaranteed to all residents in the Grand Duchy. […]
(2) The State sets up free of charge secondary educational establishments and the necessary higher education courses.
(3) The law determines the means of supporting State education and the conditions under which it is to be supervised by the Government and the communes; it also regulates all educational matters and creates, according to the criteria it establishes, a financial aid system in favour of pupils and students. [...]
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Article 29 [Revision of May 6, 1948]
The law shall regulate the use of languages in administrative and judicial matters[2].
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Chapter III Sovereign Power
Article 37 [Treaties]
(1) The Grand Duke concludes treaties. These do not come into effect until they have been sanctioned by law and published in the manner laid down for the publication of laws.
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(4) The Grand Duke enacts the regulations and necessary orders for carrying the treaties into effect in accordance with the procedure governing measures for the execution of laws and with the effects attaching to such measures, without prejudice to matters reserved to the law by the Constitution.
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| [1] | Title modified by the constitutional revision of June 2, 1999. |
| [2] | Jurisprudence.
Texte législatif français |