The New International Encyclopædia/Carlsbad Decrees
CARLSBAD DECREES. The resolutions
adopted by a conference of delegates of the principal
German States at Karlsbad in 1819, and
promptly ratified by the Federal Assembly. They
were aimed at the liberal agitation then
rampant and were a part of the reactionary policy
of Prince Metternich. The press was put under a
strict censorship and the universities under police

supervision. The Burschenschaft was to be
suppressed, and a federal committee of seven was
appointed to inquire into “the origin and
ramifications of revolutionary conspiracies and
demagogic associations.” At the Conference of Vienna
in the following year constitutions were declared
incompatible with the rights of the sovereigns.
See , and
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Karlovy Vary