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PRÁVNĚHISTORICKÉ STUDIE, Vol 53 No 2 (2023), 101–136
Ohlédnutí za Velkou Prahou
[Legal Establishment of Greater Prague]
Ivana Bláhová
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/2464689X.2023.28
published online: 31. 10. 2023
abstract
The paper deals with the legal aspects of the establishment of the so-called Greater Prague, i.e., the merger of neighbouring municipalities with the capital of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1922. The introduction briefly outlines the efforts to merge Prague with its suburbs dating from the mid-19th century until 1918. The following section focuses on the activities of the National Assembly on the establishment of Greater Prague. In addition to the establishment and the membership of the Greater Prague Committee, parliamentary papers related to the creation of Greater Prague are described and analysed. Parliamentary papers 719 and 1216, which included government bills to merge neighbouring municipalities and settlements into the City of Prague, a bill on elections to the Metropolitan Council and a bill on the organisation and powers of the Metropolitan Council and local committees, are discussed in detail. From a comparison of the government proposals, the amendments proposed by parliamentary committees and the text of the laws adopted, it is possible to deduce the general tendencies of the relationship between the state administration and local government at the beginning of the Czechoslovak Republic. The issues of financing the establishment and operation of the new capital of Czechoslovakia have not gone unnoticed.
keywords: Prague; Greater Prague; legislative procedure; National Assembly; Greater Prague Committee; unification of Prague; election; mayor; Metropolitan Council; local committees; administration; autonomy
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