Abstract
The Czechoslovak State had taken over the legal order from the extinct monarchy, including a set of civil rights and freedoms including press laws. Its main law regulation in the Czech lands was the Press Act of 1862, which regulated the publishing and dissemination of periodically and non-periodically published texts by the press.
In the former state it regulated production control and responsibility for the content of the published information favourably, along with possible sanctions for violating applicable regulations. These had been tightened by the government of the monarchy since the beginning of World War I.
Soon after the emergence of the new democratic state, progressive deputies proposed the removal of the largest partial obstacles to the freedom of press. Furthermore, within three months of the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, they proposed a draft of a new law with a greater freedom of press in the Parliament.
However, the National Assembly did not discuss it. The Government itself prepared and the Parliament submitted its own, perfect proposal for a comprehensive modification of the creation and dissemination of information in print form in 1921.
The National Assembly did not discuss this proposal either, the state management legislatively addressed other urgent tasks. The prescribed that print law rules from the monarchy remained in force.