STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2685, sig. 109-12/333

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& What about the legal positions of Sudeten-Germanism? cder Sud-d-Beuegessrg We assume as an objective the legal transformation of the state into a true nation state. This objective is justified by the allegation that the current legal order of the Czechoslovak state did not take account of its national reality and in particular by the interests of the most powerful ethnic group of the state,the Sudeten Germans. The Czech thesis is:The state is a national-political consolidationist.There are no open, really important fundamental questions of popular policy.This circumstance would be guaranteed by two legal instruments.Once it is the existence of a democratic constitution. By doing so, everyone is entitled to defend himself politically by means of voting, by acting in the political parties, etc. Secondly, the national problems of the state are also justified and exhausted by a particularly legal instrument, namely the minority protection treaty. It is also pointed out that the democratic structure of the Constitution, which is the current Czechoslovak rule of law, is superior to the old Austrian law in force in these areas.The former was a mixture of feudal institutions and prerogatives with a democratic parliamentary institution to the WC.The current legal system, on the other hand, is purely democratic. III. This is not only a formal objection.The present constitution is not a work of representatives of the entire population of the state, in which all ethnic groups would have been involved.It is a work by a group of representatives from the Czech people, who have also been informed by Slovaks among themselves.