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If controversies concerning the Const.i.tution arise within a State in which there is no court competent to dispose of them, or if controversies of a public nature arise between different States or between a State and the Commonwealth, they will be determined upon complaint of one of the parties by the Supreme Judicial Court of the German Commonwealth, unless another judicial court of the Commonwealth is competent.

The President of the Commonwealth executes judgments of the Supreme Judicial Court.

_SECTION II_

THE NATIONAL a.s.sEMBLY

ARTICLE 20

The National a.s.sembly is composed of the delegates of the German People.

ARTICLE 21

The delegates are representatives of the whole People. They are subject only to their own consciences and are not bound by any instructions.

ARTICLE 22

The delegates are elected by universal, equal, direct and secret suffrage by all men and women over twenty years of age, in accordance with the principles of proportional representation. The day for elections must be a Sunday or a public holiday.

The details will be regulated by the national election law.

ARTICLE 23

The National a.s.sembly is elected for four years. New elections must take place at the latest on the sixtieth day after its term comes to an end.

The National a.s.sembly convenes at the latest on the thirtieth day after the election.

ARTICLE 24

The National a.s.sembly meets each year on the first Wednesday in November at the seat of the National Government. The President of the National a.s.sembly must call it earlier if the President of the Commonwealth, or at least one-third of the members of the National a.s.sembly, demand it.

The National a.s.sembly determines the close of its session and the day of rea.s.sembling.

ARTICLE 25

The President of the Commonwealth may dissolve the National a.s.sembly, but only once for the same cause.

The new election occurs at the latest on the sixtieth day after such dissolution.

ARTICLE 26

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