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|588| his ancestral land the traditional representation, in his new lands by contrast a constitution founded on a true national representation, with regard to their earlier relations of right. The king further had communicated to the estates (in a second enclosure) fundamental points which can seem unsuited to no unprejudiced person (certainly!) to serve as the basis of the negotiations on a good constitution.
The reason of the matter nevertheless prevailed so far that the assembly resolved, admittedly to something merely formal, upon negotiations. – The Prince of Öttingen-Wallerstein moved (Div. XIII, p. 138) that after a sufficient interval the members should present their views on the royal rescript and that a committee should then give its opinion on them. This proposal disturbed the usual way, of entrusting the report on a royal proposition at once to a committee, and probably to the ordinary members, and of seeing the unanimity of the assembly’s resolution, in which such a committee had acquired a kind of monopoly, follow of itself. It was nevertheless thought fit to elect not a committee but four rapporteurs. For some time it had moreover already happened that even of a committee elected to report and give an opinion each individual member brought his essay into the assembly and read it out; it seemed as if even a committee of a few did not arrive at a deliberation and resolution among themselves, but only at a sequence of monopolies. – In the following sittings many essays were now read out, several of which went to the effect that even so one could not yet enter into negotiations; e.g. that it was a matter de iuribus singulorum, on which the majority of votes of the assembly could not decide, – a sacred principle of the former public law of the German Empire, in which the basic evil and the basic injustice had precisely consisted
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