Czechoslovak constitution of 1920

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The Czechoslovak constitution of 1920 was the foundational democratic charter of the First Czechoslovak Republic, establishing its parliamentary system, civil liberties, and the legal framework for the joint Czechoslovak nation.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf constitution
foundational law
appliesTo First Czechoslovak Republic NERFINISHED
branch executive branch
judicial branch
legislative branch
characteristic codified bill of rights
limited powers of the president
strong role of parliament
country Czechoslovakia
createdBody Chamber of Deputies
Senate NERFINISHED
definedAs democratic charter
definedNationAs Czechoslovak nation
definedStateForm unitary state
established National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
bicameral parliament
civil liberties framework
independent judiciary
office of the President of the Republic
parliamentary system
representative democracy
separation of powers
guaranteedRight equality before the law
freedom of assembly
freedom of association
freedom of religion
freedom of speech
universal suffrage
headOfGovernmentTitle Prime Minister
headOfStateTitle President of the Republic
historicalSignificance foundational charter of the First Czechoslovak Republic
key document of Central European interwar democracy
ideology liberal democracy
inForceIn Bohemia
Moravia NERFINISHED
Slovakia
Subcarpathian Ruthenia
inLanguage Czech
Slovak
inspiredBy Austrian constitutional tradition
French Third Republic constitution
Weimar Constitution
legalForm parliamentary republic
promulgatedBy National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
replaced provisional constitution of 1918
supersededBy Czechoslovak constitution of 1948
timePeriod interwar period
votingSystem proportional representation

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Czechoslovakism
codifiedIn
Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia ("Constitution of Czechoslovakia")
constitutingInstrument

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