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The Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma
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Details of Germany's proposed new constitution, drafted by experts including Hugo Preuss, emphasize democratic elements: president elected by absolute majority of voters for seven years; empire includes former states and self-determining territories; government responsible to Reichstag. Reported from Berlin, received in London Jan. 20.
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PRESIDENT TO BE ELECTED BY ABSOLUTE MAJORITY OF ALL VOTERS
London, Jan. 20.—Details of the proposed new constitution for Germany drawn up recently at a conference of widely known authorities on constitutional law, including Hugo Preuss, state secretary of the interior of the Ebert government, are given in an official wireless dispatch sent out from Berlin and picked up here. It states that the empire is to consist of its former component states—besides any territories which by virtue of the right of self-determination desire to be received into the empire.
The dispatch declares that the people have the right, regardless of former frontiers, to erect new German free states within the empire, providing any such free state has a population of 2,000,000. If the people of a border country wish to join the German empire, the assent of the German people shall be required.
The imperial president, who is to be elected by the people, must be 35 years of age and must have been a citizen of Germany for 10 years before his election. He will be elected by an absolute majority of all the votes of the empire. The president will represent the empire but declarations of war or conclusions of peace rest with the reichstag. Treaties with foreign states require the assent of the reichstag. As soon as the league of nations, the object of which is the exclusion of secret treaties, has been formed, all treaties with the league shall require the assent of the reichstag.
The imperial president's tenure of office will be for seven years and his re-election will be permissible.
The imperial government will be composed of a chancellor and ministers who will be chosen by the president of the reichstag. The government must have the confidence of the house of deputies and shall be responsible to the reichstag.
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Germany
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Jan. 20
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proposed democratic structure with popularly elected president, reichstag oversight on war, peace, and treaties; government responsible to reichstag.
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Proposed new constitution for Germany, drawn up recently by authorities including Hugo Preuss, consists of former states plus self-determining territories; allows creation of new free states with 2,000,000 population; border regions require assent to join; president elected by absolute majority for seven years, age 35, citizen 10 years; represents empire but reichstag handles war, peace, treaties; government chosen by reichstag president, responsible to reichstag.