{"book":"adl0973","page":248,"text":"houses, the House of Peers (Majlis-i-A'yan),\nand the House of Representatives, Majlis-i-\nShura-i-Milli. The former is composed of\nsixty members who hold their seats by right of\nbirth or by nomination by the King. Most\nof them are men who have rendered great and\nmeritorious services to the country. The شورای ملی\nHouse of Representatives consists of 120\nmembers elected by ballot from among the\nvoters in each constituency. Suffrage is not\nrestricted by any property qualification, and\nis extended to all people over twenty years of\nage, possessing sound moral character.\nA general meeting (Loya Jirgah) must be\nheld at least once in every three years. No\nnew taxes can be imposed or new laws framed\nwithout the consent of the Loya Jirgah. But\nlarge powers are reserved for the King ; this\nbeing an absolute necessity in a country\nwhere democratic institutions are yet in their\ninfancy and which has yet to learn the art of\nGovernment by experience. Only the King\ncan declare war or negotiate for peace with\nthe enemy or enter into treaties. No laws\npassed by the Majlis can become operative\nuntil his sanction has been obtained. He\n\n191","chars":1137,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00248.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/248","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/248","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}