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12: Habsburg Curiosity

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The History of Elections

After Rudolph dies in 1291, his son is not elected, so his son then contests the election. The Habsburgs respond to this with a beautiful, kind of a beautiful, nostalgic attack. They invent something called the Privalegium mayus and just make it up - which is not an unknown theme in Eastern European history. Charles promulgates something called the Golden Bowl in 1346, which is a statute of imperial governance that includes electoral procedures.

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