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 | | From August 6-31, 1819, under the influence of Clemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich (1773-1859), ministers from Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Mecklenburg, Hannover, Württemberg, Nassau, Baden, Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, and Hesse participated in a conference in Carlsbad (today the Czech city Karlovy Vary). |
 | | The Carlsbad Decrees, which included the University Law, the Confederal Press Law (below), and the Investigatory Law, came into effect on September 20, 1819. |
 | | The methods and measures required to uphold this resolution in closer detail are left up to the discretion of the governments; they must, however, be of the kind that allows full justice to be done to the sense and purpose of the main provision of § 1. |
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