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Constitutional Development in Czechoslovakia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Robert J. Kerner
Robert J. Kerner
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University of Missouri
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The provisional government of the Czechoslovak Republic at Prague was established by virtue of the law of November 13, 1918, on the provisional constitution. Its antecedents may be of some interest to students of constitutional history. The Czechoslovak statesmen take the ground that the ancient Bohemian state never ceased to exist, as is proved by the thrice-made offer of Francis Joseph, as well as the similar offer of ex-Emperor Charles, to be crowned king of Bohemia. They also point out that the Czech nation never recognized the constitution of 1867 which made possible the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich.

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Foreign Governments and Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , November 1919 , pp. 652 - 656
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1919

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References

1 Sbírka Zákonů a nařízeni státu československého. Ročník 1918: Čislo 37.

2 See Srb, Šedesát let, II 142–144. The best monographs on Czech constitutional history are: Kalousek, České státní právo, Prague 1892: Baxa, K dějinám veřejného prava, Prague, 1906, and Kadlec (ed.) Drobne spisy Bohuše svob. pana Riegra, Vol. II, Prague, 1915. For a more recent explanation see Masaryk, , “Czechoslovak Nation,” Nation (N. Y.), Vol. 107, pp. 386–388.Google Scholar

3 Československá Samostatnost (Paris) III, No. 29, 31 and Meissner, A., “Notre Constitution Provisoire” in Le Rapport Quotidien, I, No. 80.Google Scholar

4 See especially the British Declaration of August 9, 1918, and the American Declaration of September 2, 1918.

5 Sbírka Zákonů, etc. Roč. 1918: 374 and ff.

6 See especially Baxa, Kotasce právního postavení presidenta československé republiky, in Národní Listy, May 20, 1919, No. 118 and his article in Česky Revue. He attacks the provisional constitution. Hobza, Silný president či silná republika, in Česká Straá, May 20, 1919, defends it.

7 Meissner, , Le Rapport Quotidien, IGoogle Scholar, no. 80.

8 See the Národní Listy (National Democrat) and Právo Lidu (Social Demo crat) from January to June, 1919.

9 See Sbírka Zákonů, etc. Roč. 1918, under date.

10 All men and women over twenty-one years of age voted. See Rád voledoní do obcí republiky československé. (Prague, 1919.)

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