Abstract
The edition of the forgotten Vratislav Kalousek's book "A Comparison of the Constitutions of Central European Republics" is a forgotten work of older Czech and Czechoslovak constitutional research. Its author, constitutional lawyer Vratislav Kalousek (1883-1936) served as a high official of the Ministry of the Interior in the interwar period.
The author compares the newly established constitutions of neighboring republics after the First World War - Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland and Austria. The study was written shortly after the adoption of these constitutions and thus represents one of the first Czech extensive texts about them and at the same time their interesting reflection from the viewpoint of early 1920s.
Its author points out a number of similar solutions and critically examines and explains their different elements. Kalousek also translated the newly adopted foreign constitutions into Czech and published them in order to make them more accessible to domestic readers.
The translations of selected the constitutions of Germany, Prussia, Austria and Poland form an appendix to the edition. The book is supplemented by a biographical study, briefly describing the life of the currently almost forgotten author.