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 &ldquo;the origin and ramifications of revolutionary conspiracies and demagogic associations.&rdquo; At the Conference of Vienna in the following year constitutions were declared incompatible with the rights of the sovereigns. See, and .