Abstract
Since October 1918, Czechoslovakian armed power had been created on the basis of revolutionary foreign troops, old elements of the Austrian and Hungarian army, and armed internal formations. The unification of Austrian law with the new Czechoslovakian legal order became the legal foundations of defence policy.
The Constitution and the defence law of 1920 played a privileged part. Considerable attention should be paid to the Statute about State Defence from 1936.
The normative regulation came out of constitutional, administrative and penal law, and partially from generally understood private law. The defence of the state required personal and material restrictions of civil rights.
The outstanding position was intended for the president (commander-in-chief) and his internal legislation, which determined the inner life of the armed forces.