On the status of opposition deputies in the legislative procedure in the First Czechoslovak Republic
2018
Abstract
If we compare the current tendencies to restrict the rights of individual MPs to submit bills and amendments, to limit the right of speech, with the First Republic, the current efforts get closer to the First-Republic practice. The paper is describing legal provisions dealing with the individual MPs' rights of the First-Republic rules of procedure.
Contemporary tendencies agree with the departure from strong MPs' individualism, which emerged as a negation of socialist voting unanimity. We may also observe the shift towards higher parliamentary party discipline, which corresponds to the characteristics of the Parliament of the First Republic.