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[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.

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