STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1781, sig. 109-5/9

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32 - 2 - Judiciary, which has left it at the same time. If President and Government are based on acts and laws of the past, this cannot mean that they refer to their legal authority. The provisions of Article l2 of the Prot. Erl., whereby the applicable law remains in force, unless it speaks vider to the sense of protection, is of course also applicable to the area of autonomous execution. Dr. Hácha is not president, he was elected by the former national impoverishment according to § 56 Vu, but because the leader left him in an analogously designed office. It is similar to the constitutional area as a whole, The Enforcement Act, on the basis of which the President of the State and Government are acting today, has its legal force not from the resolution of the National Assembly of 15.12.1938, but from Art. 12 Prot Erl., because it is compatible with the senses of the Protectorate, The same applies to the Constitution, Your most important parts are undoubtedly set out by the reservation of Art. l2. Others, which are compatible with it, are considered to be autonomous law, unless they have lapsed due to changes in the field of facts. II. In addition to these questions (which, by the way, are closed down in themselves), the scope for the future structure of the autonomous constitutional area is determined by the need to take a look at the current situation. The opposing constitutional structure of this autonomous area is a mixture of sutoritarian and parliamentary forms, with the former predominate.