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Moravian Diet Moravský zemský sněm Mährisches Landtag | |
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| Legislative body of theMargraviate of Moravia | |
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| Established | 1861 - last stage |
| Disbanded | 1918 (unformal), 1920 (formal by Constitution of Czechoslovakia 1920 |
| Preceded by | Moravian Diet of Estates, since 1288 |
| Succeeded by | Národní shromáždění republiky Československé/National Assembly of Czechoslovakia |
| Seats | 151 (at dissolution) |
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Last election | The Diet Elections of Country Moravia 15.6. - 8.7. 1913 |
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| Moravian Diet house,Brno, (Czech Constitutional court current days) | |
TheMoravian Diet (Latin:Moraviae generali colloquio;Czech:Moravský zemský sněm; earlier Moravský stavovský sněm;German:Mährisch-ständische Landtag) was thelegislature[1] of Moravia, the Diet, or general assembly, of the Estates of theMargraviate of Moravia. It emerged from earlier informal assemblies, known as the Moravian corporate Diet (or Diet of estates of the Moravian Lands).
The first session of the Moravian Diet took place in 1254. It was convened inBrno, the then-capital city of Moravia, by KingPřemysl Otakar II. Regular sessions started in 1288 and met alternately in Brno andOlomouc (bothcloisters of theDominican Order). After 1663, it met only in Brno.
In theYear of Revolution 1848 (Spring of Nations), from May 31, 1848, until January 21, 1849, a Moravian constitutional assembly was held. On September 19, 1848, this assembly adopted the MoravianConstitution (German:Der Ferfassung für das Markgrafthum Mähren,Czech:Zřízení pro Markrabství Moravské).[2][3] This complies with the principles of theFederal Constitution, state representative government, and civil liberties. Later this proposal was not ratified byEmperor Francis Joseph I.
On November 27, 1905, leading members of the Moravian Diet from both theCzech-speaking andGerman-speaking communities inMoravia agreed to a political compromise that divided power in theprovincial diet betweenCzechs,Germans, and members of the landowning andecclesiastical aristocracy.TheMoravian 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 — in the proportions set by the compromise for staffing nationally shared public institutions, such asCrownlandlegislation and administration, and for funding nationally partitioned ones, such as schools.
The electoral conditions were altered so as to include, in addition to the three electoral classes of thegreat landowners, thetaxpayers in urban areas, and the taxpayers inrural districts, a fourth universal electoral class consisting of every qualified voter; separate German and Czechelectoral districts were established according to the national land registers; andcuria of the separate nationalities were instituted to settle all disputes involving the question of nationality. The question of language in the case of the autonomous national and district authorities had been settled on a bilingual basis, and the division of the school board according to nationality was accomplished. Although, by the acceptance of this franchise reform, the Germans lost their previous majority in the Diet, they gave their consent to the changes in the interests ofpublic peace.Politically speaking, theMargraviate of Moravia was an Austrian crown land, with the highest administrative authority being vested in thegovernor atBrno. The Diet consisted of 149 deputies: 2 members with individual votes, theArchbishop of Olomouc and theBishop of Brno; 30 members of the landed interests (10 German, 20 Czech); 3 deputies from theChamber of Commerce of Brno and from that of Olomouc; 40 representatives of the towns (20 German, 20 Czech); 51 representatives of the rural communities (14 German); 20 deputies from the electoral curia (6 German). In theReichstrat (Imperial Parliament in Vienna) of the Austrian Crownlands, Moravia was represented by 49 deputies.
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