sentences:  According to the succession provisions of the kingdom's suspended constitution, that of 1938, agnatic primogeniture and so-called "Salic law" determine who would inherit the throne.After two intervening changes of regime, that constitution no longer carries legal weight, although the 1884 Law of Romanian Royal House Rules was never abrogated.It must also be said that the remaining current German Hohenzollerns in the succession line descend from the previously mentioned Prince Frederick and his brother Prince Franz Joseph, the sons of Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern (Wilhelm's father, Prince Leopold renounced his rights in 1880), who renounced his rights to the Romanian throne, on 20 December 1886, in favor of his younger brother, the future King Ferdinand.