The Intention to Revise the Constitutional Chartein the Political Programme of the Underground Resistance Groups The Petititon Committee We Will Stay Faithful and the Central Command of the Home Resistance with Regard to the Selected Constitutional Issues

Abstract

The paper examines the constitutional ideas delivered by the detailed resistance program For Freedom to the New Czechoslovak Republic, formulated in 1941 within the undeground resistance organization Petition Committee We Will Stay Faithful (Petiční výbor Věrni zůstaneme). This program, requesting and justifying a series of perspective changes of the Czechoslovak Constitutional Charter of 1920, in a very remarkable way combines efforts for constituonal continuity with a path towards constitutional continuity with a path towards constitutional discontinuity.

The paper analyses the amendment requirements and observes to what extent and in what way they have been applied to the Czechoslovak and Czech constitutional development later on, concentrating on economic rights and on the legal regulation of the position of Parliament and the President of the Republic.