Germany -- History -- Revolution, 1918; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933
(3) Judicial procedure, including the execution of justice; further,
official co-operation between public authorities.
(4) Passports and police supervision of aliens.
(5) Poor relief and vagrancy.
(6) The Press, the right of association, the right of meeting.
(7) Population questions, care of mothers, infants, children, and
young persons.
(8) Public health, veterinary regulations, and protection of plants
against disease and pests.
(9) The right to work, insurance and protection of workers and
employees, and employment exchange.
(10) The institution of vocational associations extending over the
Realm.
(11) The care of discharged soldiers and their dependants.
(12) The right of expropriation.
(13) Socialisation of natural resources and of economic enterprises,
further the manufacture, production, distribution, and price
regulation of economic commodities for general use.[10]
(14) The commercial code, weights and measures, the issue of paper
money, banking, and stock exchange regulations.
(15) Dealings in foodstuffs and food luxuries, and also in essential
commodities of daily use.
(16) Industry and mining.
(17) Insurance.
(18) Merchant shipping, high-sea and coastwise fishing.
(19) Railways, canal traffic, motor traffic by land, sea, and air, and
the construction of roads serving general traffic and national
defence.[11]
(20) Theatres and cinemas.
ARTICLE 8.[12]
The Realm has further the right of legislating as to taxation and
other revenues, in so far as they are wholly or partially appropriated
to its purposes. Should the Realm appropriate taxes or other revenues
hitherto assigned to the Lands, it must keep in view the proper
requirements of the Lands.
ARTICLE 9.
The Realm has the right to legislate on the following subjects, or, if
and when it is necessary to issue uniform regulations:--
(1) Social welfare work.
(2) Protection of public order and public safety.
ARTICLE 10.[13]
The Realm can by Act, frame general principles regulating:--
(1) Rights and responsibilities of religious communities.
(2) Education, including all higher education and scientific
libraries.
(3) Rights of the officials of all public bodies.
(4) Right to the land, land distribution, land settlement and small
holdings, the law of entail, housing, and distribution of the
population.
(5) Burial of the dead.
ARTICLE 11.
The Realm can by way of legislation, frame general principles
concerning the validity and collection of taxes levied by the Lands
to protect important interests of society and prevent:--
(1) Prejudice to the revenues or commercial relations of the Realm.
(2) Levies on public communications or institutions if excessive or
such as to interfere with communication.
(3) Where, in the course of traffic between the different Federal
States or provinces, commodities entering a certain State suffer
financial disabilities as compared with the same class of commodity
manufactured in such State.
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