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Documents - Part II: Section B – Territories
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1.   Forgery in Favor of Territorial Sovereignty – Privilegium Maius (1358/59)
This notorious Austrian forgery dates from the fourteenth century, when the practical devolution of royal authority to the princes was in full swing. Commissioned by Duke Rudolf IV of Austria, it....
2.   Prince and Estates – Treaty of Tübingen (1514)
Until the later fifteenth century, the Empire was composed mostly of territories ruled by princes whose authority consisted of a bundle of often disparate rights. The beginnings of institutionalized....
3.   Territorial Government by the Prince with Estates – The Parliament of Electoral Saxony (Second Half of the 16th Century)
This sixteenth-century text describes the procedural rules for calling and holding the territorial parliament [Landtag] in Electoral Saxony. At this time, the elector, whose seat lay in Dresden,....
4.   Territorial Governance – Pomeranian Administrative Ordinance (November 21, 1575)
At the heart of the institutionalization of territorial governance lay the regulation and continuity of the prince’s central regime. Ensuring these things meant more lawyers and secretaries, but....
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