Moravian Diet

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Moravian Diet

Moravský zemský sněm
Mährisches Landtag
Legislative body of the
Czech Constitutional court
current days)

The Moravian Diet (

Latin: Moraviae generali colloquio; Czech: Moravský zemský sněm; earlier Moravský stavovský sněm; German: Mährisch-ständische Landtag) was legislature[1] of Moravia, the Diet, or general assembly, of the Estates of the Margraviate of Moravia,
and emerged from the earlier informal assemblies, known as the Moravian corporate Diet (or Diet of estates of Moravian Land).

Early session room of Moravian Diet (13th C.) - Cloister of Dominican monastery in Brno
Debating chamber (Assembly hall) in New parliament house 1878

History

The first session in 1254 was convened in Brno by King

Přemysl Otakar II. Regular sessions started in 1288 and met alternately in Brno and Olomouc (both Dominican cloister). Since 1663 sessioned only in Brno
.

The liberal constitution

In the

Emperor Francis Joseph I
.

Moravian Compromise

On November 27, 1905, leading members of Moravian Diet of the

ecclesiastical aristocracy
. The
Moravian Compromise[4] was one of the few positive examples of an approach to a fair solution in the field of nationalities policies. Despite the deadlock in the language dispute between Czechs and Germans, a compromise acceptable to both sides and allowing a harmonious coexistence was found here.

The Moravian Compromise of 1905 was a compromise over what national equality of rights meant. The Czech and German understanding of it and the compromise between them even found numerical expression—iin the proportions set by the compromise for staffing nationally shared public institutions, such as

Crownland legislation
and administration, and for funding nationally partitioned ones, such as school.

The electoral conditions were altered so as to include, in addition to the three electoral classes of the

public peace
. Politically speaking, the
Reichsrat
(Imperial parliament in Vienna) of the Austrian Crownlands, Moravia was represented by 49 deputies.

Moravian Compromise 1905, The map of new constituencies - General curia
  • The very last one is Act No 42/1918 (Dig.)
    The very last one is Act No 42/1918 (Dig.)
  • Last Digest of Acts and Rules
    Last Digest of Acts and Rules
  • The last Moravian Constitution and Rules of Procedure of Moravian Diets
    The last Moravian Constitution and Rules of Procedure of Moravian Diets
  • Rules of Procedure, German
    Rules of Procedure, German

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