Moravian Diet
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Moravian Diet Moravský zemský sněm Mährisches Landtag | |
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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).
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.
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The very last one is Act No 42/1918 (Dig.)
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Last Digest of Acts and Rules
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The last Moravian Constitution and Rules of Procedure of Moravian Diets
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Rules of Procedure, German
References
- ^ Annual Digest of Acts from 1849 to 1918 in Austrian National Library, on-line
- ^ HLAVAČKA, Milan, Draft for Constitutions of Margraviate of Moravia. In:Čepulo, D. (eds.2009) Constitutions in the World from late 18th Century to the Middle of 19th Century. Berlin/New York. De Gruyter
- ^ Moravian Constitution in State archive Vienna
- ^ The Moravian Compromise: light at the end of the tunnel?
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