{"book":"adl1181","page":55,"text":"The Parliament of Afghanistan:\nAs Afghanistan is a Constitutional\nMonarchy, the King, the National Assem-\nbly and the Senate together constitute the\nParliament, which is divided into three parts\nindependent of each other.\nFirst is the Legislature, whose drafts of\nnew laws are confirmed and adopted by\nthe National assembly and the Senate.\n1. The National assembly is composed\nof the people, who are elected by the Nation.\nThey are elected as follows, the people of an\nelectoral district assemble at a specified\nplace, which is announced beforehand by\nthe authorities of the district and after debate\nsystematically elect their member. The right\nto stand as a candidate and be elected for\nthe membership of this assembly is enjoyed\nby all equally, and every Afghan subject\nhas the right to be elected without distincti-\non of race or religion. An electoral period\nin this assembly is three years, but there\nis no obligation to wait for the electoral\nperiod to end and the people can re-elect\ntheir representative repeatedly. There are\n116 electoral districts and the number of\n\n— 17 —\n\nسمت شرق","chars":1093,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1181/00055.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":77,"title":"Khvush āmadīd bih Kābul = : Welcome to Kabul خوش آمديد به کابل","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1181/55","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1181/canvas/55","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1181/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1181_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."}}