Volume III — Europe: Constitutions of Nations

657 Pages·1974·15.69 MB·English

by  Amos J. Peaslee (auth.)

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CONSTITUTIONS
of
NATIONS
VOLUME III- EUROPE
by
AMOS J. PEASLEE
Formerly Ambassador of the United States of America to
Australia, Secretary-General of the International Bar Associ
ation, Member of the American Council of Learned Societies,
President of the American Branch of the International Law
Association, Representati~e of the American Society of
International Law at the San Francisco Conference of 1945,
Associate of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace
at Versailles in 1919
Author of INTERNATIONAL GovERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
THEIR CoNSTITUTIONAL DocuMENTS (Martinus Nijhoff, The
Hague; and Justice House, New York, zrtd Ed., 1961), A
PERMANENT UNITED NATIONS (Putnams, 1942), UNITED
NATIONS GoVERNMENT (Putnams, 1945), and co-author of
THREE WARS WITH GERMANY (Putnams, 1944)
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REVISED THIRD EDITION
In four Volumes
Prepared by Dorothy Peaslee Xydis
Formerly officer in the Secretariat of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Unchanged reprint 1974
ISBN 978-94-017-1151-7 ISBN 978-94-017-1149-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-1149-4
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Originally published by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands in 1974.
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FOREWORD TO VOLUME III
Volume III of the new edition covers thirty five countries. Two, Cyprus
and Malta, are new entries and a third, Albania, which had a section but
no text in the second edition now has its constitution reproduced. Six
countries 1 have new constitutions and the constitutioni'l of twenty have
been amended. A number of additional constitutional texts have been
included in the section for the United Kingdom. Only in the case of four
countries 2 has there been no change since the second edition and for
these countries the revised edition contains the latest edition of the Consti
tution as supplied by the government in question or a more recent trans
lation.
The texts of the constitutions reproduced in this volume are all as
supplied by the Governments concerned to the editor up to November 15,
1966. The editor is indebted to the Foreign Ministries which supplied most
of the texts, almost all of them in English, and a certain amount of back
ground material and bibliographies. As is the case with all the volumes, the
editor has used for background material particularly the Serie Outremer
of the Documentation fran'iaise, the Statesman's Yearbook, the Encyclopaedia
Americana and Le Monde. 'rhe figures for area are taken from the States
man's Yearbook, for population from the United Nations Yearbook for
United Nations members and from the Statesman's Yearbook for non
members.
The selected bibliographies have been entirely revised and the books
listed in the bibliography, now consolidated at the end of the volume,
are, in many cases, those indicated as appropriate by the governments in
question.
Dorothy Peaslee Xydis
Athens, November 15, 1966
1 Czechoslovakia, France, Monaco, Rumania, San Marino, Yugoslavia.
2 Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Ireland.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Albania
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S
Constitution of March 14, 1946, revised July 4, 1950, amended
1958, 1954, 1958 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Austria
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Federal Constitutional Law of October 26, 1955, as amended to
1964 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Belgium
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Constitution of February 7, 1881, amended 1898, 1920, 1921 . 76
Bulgaria
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Constitution of December 4,1947, as amended 1961, 1965 . 96
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Constitution of February 19, 1937, as amended to 1960 . 115
Cyprus
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Constitution ·of April 6, 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act of
July 9, 1964. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
0 zechoslovakia
Summary. . . . . . . . . 222
Constitution of July 11, 1960 225
Denmark
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Constitution of the Kingdom of Denmark Act of June 5, 1953 . 258
Succession to the Throne Act of March 27, 1953 . . . . . . 266
VID Table of conlent8
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Finland
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Constitution Act of July 17,1919, as amended 1947,1956,1957. 271
Parliament Act of January 13, 1928, as amended 1937, 1944,
1948, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
France
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Constitution of October 4, 1958, as amended 1960, 1962, 1963 . 312
German Democratic Republic
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Constitution of October 7, 1949, as amended 1955, 1958, 1960 . 334
German Federal Republic
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Basic Law of May 8, 1949, as amended to 1966 361
Greece
Summary . . . . . . . . . . 399
Constitution of January 1, 1952 403
Hungary
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Constitution of August 20, 1949, as amended 1950, 1953, 1954,
1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
Iceland
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Constitution of June 17, 1944, as amended 1959 449
Ireland
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Constitution of July 1, 1937, as amended 1939, 1941 . 463
Italy
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Constitution of December 27, 1947, amended 1953, 1963 . 500
Liechtenstein
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Constitution of October 5, 1921, as amended 1939, 1947, 1958,
1963, 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Luxembourg
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
Constitution of October 17, 1868, as amended 1919, 1948, 1956 . 554
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Malta
Summary ................... . 568
Constitution of September 21, 1964, as amended 1965 . 571
Monaco
Summary ........... . 634
Constitu:tion of December 17, 1962 . 637
Nether lands
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
Constitution of August 24, 1815, as amended to 1963 . 652
Norway
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
Constitution of May 17, 1814, as amended to 1964 689
Poland
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706
Constitution of July 22, 1952, as amended 1954,1957,1960, 1961,
1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709
Portugal
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
Constitution of April 11, 1933, as amended 1935, 1936, 1937,
1938, 1945, 1951, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728
Rumania
Summary. . . . . 764
Constitution of 1965 767
San Marino
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 785
Electoral Law of December 29, 1958 788
Spain
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806
Organic Law of the State of December 14, 1966 . . . 810
Principles of the National Movement of May 17, 1958. 824
Charter of the Spanish People of July 16, 1945, as amended 1966 825
Law of the Cortes of March 9, 1946, amended 1966 . . . . . 829
Referendum Act of October 22, 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . 833
Law of Succession to the Chief of State of June 7, 1947, as
amended 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834
Labor Charter of March 9, 1938, as amended 1966 . . . . . . 838
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Sweden
Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844
Instrument of Government of June 6, 1809, as amended to 1965 847
Riksdag Act of June 22, 1866, as amended to 1953. . . . . . 872
Freedom of the Press Act of April5, 1949, as amended to 1953 . 902
Switzerland
Summary ..................... . 928
Federal Constitution of May 29, 1874, as amended to 1964 . 932
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Summary ................... . 964
Constitution of January SO, 1937, as amended to 1965 968
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Summary ................... . 985
Constitution of December 5, 1936, as amended to 1965 989
United Kingdom
Summary ....................... . 1008
Magna Charta of 1215 ................. . 1014
Great Charter of the Liberties of England andof the Forest 1297 1023
Confirmation of the Charters of 1297 . 1028
Petition of Right 1627 . 1030
Bill of Rights 1688 . . . . . . . . . 1033
Act of Settlement 1700 . . . . . . . 1036
Act of Union with Scotland 1706 . . . 1040
Act of Union with Scotland Amendment Act 1707 1055
Parliament Act 1911 . . . . . . . . 1057
Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1925 .. 1059
Statute of Westminster 1931 ..... . 1148
Ministers of the Crown Acts 1937 and 1964 1151 and 1156
Indian Independence Act 1947 ..... . 1158
Representation of the People Act 1949 (extracts) . 1173
Peerage Act 1963 ............. . 1180
Vatican City State
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184
Lateran Treaty of February 11, 1929 . . . . . . . . . 1187
Concordat between the Holy See and Italy of February 11, 1929 1194
Fundamental Laws of the City of the Vatican of June 7, 1929 . 1206
Yugoslavia
Summary . . . . . . . . . 1231
Constitution of April 7, 1963 1236
Appendix- Andorra, Note 1308
Selected Bibliography . . . . 1310