STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2692, sig. 109-12/340 Page 183 · 183 of 99
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2692, sig. 109-12/340
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h0b tant=4- pesltre draft constitutions and constitutions. The Czech politicians of all parties have been constitutionally anchoring the recognition of equality (equalization) of peoples and ethnic groups (popular tribes) since 1 848. Thus, in the petitions of the so-called Wenzelsbader Versaumlung of ll.3.1848 in point 4 "perfect legal justification of the Bohemian and German nationality", the following request clearly marks the attitude of Czech politicians to this question: "No nationality is denied by the other one a political privilege". This request was made by the leading Czech MPs Pinkas and Rieger l848 in the fire-fight of the Kremsier Reichstag, since the proposed version of the first sentence of § 2l of the draft constitution seemed inadequate to them, which read: "All the peoples of the region are equal". Furthermore, in the application of Dr. Herold, Dr. Pacak and comrades of 4.2, 1898 in point 8 "both tribes of the country, the Bohemian as the German, have the character of a fully-fledged political people throughout the country and every citizen has the right to protect his nationality and the use of his language in public and private life." It is incomprehensible that this knowledge of the Czech people and its politicians, since they are in possession of the state's laugh, is denied and forgotten. In the state which they have created alone, they are not willing to realize the principles of the equally legitimate life of grace, which they themselves declare irrefutable for a peaceful life together in ancient Austria. In order now to show the orderly and just cultivation principle for the multi-ethnic state of Czechoslovakia, the SaP has outlined in its sketch (Kemorandum) those principles which guarantee a vague equality,The full-fledged lack of a guarantee of equality of peoples and ethnic groups - as the core problev to be solved of the Czechoslovak state - proves that the fibres of the Nationalities regulations have not drawn the lessons of the Czech people's history, nor from the catastrophic result of a 20-year exercise of power in the Scoao Zu II C: Under the heading : Protection by proportional representation in elections, only existing regulations are mentioned, without however the legally existing regulations. of the blatant violation of the behavioural representation by the dissolution of several German parties