English Translation

VL Annex Constitutional question of the autonomous area BBEEBEBEBESESEE8EESSESEBEBEES8EEES *I The Decree of the Protectorate granted the Czechs extensive autonomy with sovereign rights, whose supreme representatives are President and Government. These bodies correspond to the former supreme bodies of the independent Czechoslovak state. The continuity, particularly in the person of President Hácha, leads to some important constitutional questions which need to be clarified in connection with the Statute of the Protectorate. The fact that the supreme bodies of the protectorate autonomy were already occupied in the creation of the Protectorate (since the owners of the formerly independent government authority were transferred to their now transformed post) made it impossible to include in the decree provisions on the fundamental nature of their occupation. In the long run, however, this question will have to be resolved (at least internally for the time being). Otherwise, there may be a number of different views. The President of the Republic has for the first time achieved his office politically by an election according to the provisions of the old č.sl. Constitution. He, like the government, also relies on the power of 15.12.1938, which also dates back to the time of the self-governing state. Does the same permanent č.sl. legal system thus have a kind of continuing force in the opposing protectorate? The answer arises from the protectorate decree. Legal and political basis of all autonomous Aemter danit also the basis of their legal authority is not the autonomous area, but the