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|539| articles of the royal charter, they added the second subtle petition – for the statement of those modifications which the present circumstances demand, for the making of some common agreement, – as if there were nothing more to be done. – If one did not want to take such an assurance and such a petition for mockery, then it must strike one as an incomprehensible lack of understanding, into which no ray of reflection on the position of the opposite party falls and which quite comfortably continues on its way without any thought that, in order to bring about an agreement, regard is in fact also necessary for the view and the will of him with whom it is to come about and who is even the prince and government.
The ministry thereupon declared on 4 April that the King had resolved to postpone the detailed answer to this submission until the return of the Crown Prince and the consultation to be held with him. Nevertheless on 17 April the King caused a further answer to be sent to the estates, at the time when he also had them called upon to co-operate in raising the extraordinary needs of the war. In it the point of view from which the royal constitution had proceeded is placed before their eyes, that “namely, given the independence of the state from any superior, the relations between the head of state and the estates have been determined after the example of other independent states, as was deemed necessary for the founding of a lasting condition, for the safeguarding of the rights of the people and for the firmness and energy of the government of the state, – regardless of whether the rights of the estates of the realm under the former imperial territorial constitution of the duchy of Württemberg were more extensive or more restricted; as indeed in the new constitution they are greater than in the one formerly existing in several essential points, namely with regard to independence in the proceedings of the estates, in the share in legislation,
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