%0 Journal Article
%T Keine Konstitution, keine Grundgesetze haben wir derzeit ¡­¡° ¨C Verfassungsdenken und Verfassungsbestrebungen im Finnland der fr¨¹hen Autonomiezeit
%A Frank Nesemann
%J Nordeuropaforum
%D 2007
%I Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin
%X After Finland had become a part of the Russian Empire 1809, the political elites strove to achieve a guarantee of Finland¡¯s ¡°fundamental laws¡±, which Alexander I had promised to preserve only in unspecific terms. They aimed at a constitutional charter explicitly con-firming state law, as it was valid according to their interpretations. When Alexander I apparently thought about convening a Finnish diet in 1819, these efforts culminated in three memoranda on Finland¡¯s constitution. In these memoranda all the tendencies determining the contemporary Finnish debate on the country¡¯s constitution were reflected. Following the outward example of European representative constitutional charters, their contents were yet rooted to a major extent in the Swedish prerevolutionary state law tradition. However, finnish hopes regarding the country¡¯s constitution did not fulfil.
%K Finland
%K Nations
%K Nationalism
%K Political Systems
%K Russia
%U http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/2007-1/nesemann-frank-45/PDF/nesemann.pdf