English Translation

the new aristocracy, which had been formed on the basis of absolute fidelity to Habsburg and united in the strictly Catholic organization, out of supreme commanders of the 3O-year-old war or new nobility of foreign nations. This development was the result of the so-called Renewed Land Order of Ferdinend II, which codified the political outcome of the Battle of the White Mountain. It found its logical continuation and orientation according to modern ideas in the reform work of Maria Thuresig, since the power-political line clearly ran in the direction of a Viennese centralism, there was an abbruch of the original special development in the Bohemian countries and that unification in the entire state administration in all so-called "German heir countries of the Austrian crown" (under which the Bohemians were also understood), which still deserves our recognition today as the greatest achievement of the last and otherwise failed attempt of the Habsburgs to develop their own state idea for their crown. The establishment of this Austrian administration therefore does not go back to the quest for the most appropriate form of public affairs, but to the political question of power between the Bohemian nobility, which sought to preserve its special rights and to destroy a far-reaching independence of the Bohemians countries, and the Habsburg central power, which saw the possibility of developing a modified and strong state was only in a strenuous summary of the individual members of its empire. It is not the needs of the administration itself, but the ringan around the actual rule in the state that led to the reformation, as it would in any way lead to delusions in every form or critical consideration of a management order, one wanted to ignore their power-pelite background. The central point on which the reforms of Mary Theresia are based is to be sought in the Bohemian Parliament, rather than the last bastion of independent prerogatives, the striving for -3 -