STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2692, sig. 109-12/340 Page 83 · 83 of 99
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2692, sig. 109-12/340
English Translation
V4 105 (with the exception of the forests, goods, mountain huts and baths), finally the foreign policy with the associated rights of the contract, war declaration etc.: All other matters fall under the legislative authority of the Slovak Landtag.To the validity of decisions of the common Czechoslovak National Assembly, however, it should be reasonable that not only the majority of all members of the National Assembly but also the majority vote,the Landtag is convened two months after the election by the President to Peessburg. The head of the state parliament appoints the first autonomous state government from the members of the parliament. The linguistic rights of minorities under the Paris suburban treaties of l9l9 are to remain unaffected.The equal rights of non-Lithuanian nationals living in Slovakia are expressly stated.By the way, the draft regulates the necessary constitutional provisions.A constitutional court is to decide whether the laws of the Czechoslovak Repbblik and the Slovak and Carpathorusian Diets are constitutional. The draft also regulates the regulatory authority of the Slovak state government, the division of common expenditure and revenue, the own administrative jurisdiction, the tariff, fund, supply and subsidy system. The Hungarian and Polish ethnic groups also demanded autonomy within the framework of the Czechoslovak Republic, as shown by various reports.