[The Program of the Friends of Liberty]
Illinois Staats-Zeitung, Mar. 7, 1871
Editorial endorses, enthusiastically, program of seven points that South-German "Friends of Liberty" have mapped out for their activity in the New Reich:
1. Addition of a declaration of fundamental rights to the constitution comparable to the first ten amendments to the U. S. Constitution.
2. A responsible ministry.
3. Army budget passed annually by the Reichstag.
4. Salary for members of the Reichstag.
5. Shortening of compulsory military service.
6. Make Reichstag co-responsible for declarations of wat and treaties of peace.
7. Far-reaching support for invalids, war-widows, etc.
