THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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English Translation

247.) Conditions and the present crisis of democracy forced order: the strengthening and stabilization of the state executive power in relation to the legislative power and in connection with the action of the political parties. The ministers, who will not necessarily be agitators of the political parties, because these two functions will often be separated from each other, will depend less on the direct influence of the parties and will take more care of their departments than of the daily party struggles, they will also not have so much concern with the distribution of posts and sinecures to supporters, the state birocracy will indeed be depoliticized and "departmentalized". The whole political life and the political struggle can become more ideal. At the same time as the social and economic structure of today's liberal bourgeois society is changing, a significant decentralisation of state administration in the spirit of democratic principles should be carried out in the European democracies above all, I believe that European democracies should accept a stricter separation of central executive power from the legislative maoht and counter the European attitudes, such as the model of the United States of America; at least it should be stricter, clearer and more consistent than before. According to the American model, whose full take-over or imitation is not possible in Europe, the central government should be more independent from Parliament, even if it does not