The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement by Frank Alfred Golder;Robert Joseph Kerner;Samuel Northrup Harper;Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch
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(7) All recognized religions may be freely and publicly exercised. The Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Mussulman faiths, which are those chiefly professed by our nation, shall rank equally and enjoy equal rights with regard to the State. In consideration of these principles the legislative will take special care to safeguard religious concord in conformity with the spirit and tradition of our whole nation. (8) The calendar will be unified as soon as possible. (9) The territory of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes will include all the territory inhabited compactly and in territorial continuity by our nation of the three names. It cannot be mutilated without detriment to the vital interests of the community. Our nation demands nothing that belongs to others. It demands only what is its own. It desires to free itself and to achieve its unity. Therefore it consciously and firmly refuses every partial solution of the problem of its national liberation and unification. It puts forward the proposition of its deliverance from Austro-Hungarian domination and its union with Serbia and Montenegro in a single State forming an indivisible whole. In accordance with the right of self-determination of peoples, no part of this territorial totality may without infringement of justice be detached and incorporated with some other State without the consent of the nation itself. (10) In the interests of freedom and of the equal right of all nations, the |
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