!!!Dezemberverfassung

Dezemberverfassung (December Constitution), the 5 Fundamental Laws 
passed by the Cisleithanian Reichsrat. They amended the Compromise of 
1867 and were sanctioned by Emperor Franz Joseph on December 21, 1867. 
Their contents include: a) the determination of the competence of the 
Reichsrat, b) general rights of the citizens, c) the exercise of 
governmental and executive powers, d) the judicial power and the 
establishment of a Reichsgericht court. The Dezemberverfassung 
permanently established the constitutional form of government in the 
Austrian half of the Empire and put the  February Patent of 1861 back 
into effect, under the name of "Gesetz ueber die Reichsvertretung" 
(law on the representation of the Empire). The principles of equality 
in the constitution of the Republic of Austria are based on article 19 
(later 21) of the Dezemberverfassung.

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Texts: Die neue Gesetzgebung Oesterreichs, vol. 1, 1868.

!Literature
F. Walter, Die Geschichte der Ministerien 1852-67, 1970.


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