by them.
The German Social Workingmen's party requires as the basis of state government:
- Universal, equal, direct, and secret suffrage, which, beginning with the twentieth year, obliges all citizens to vote in all State, county, and town elections. Election-day must be a Sunday or a holiday.
- Direct legislation by the people; decision as to war and peace by the people.
- General capability of bearing arms; popular defense in place of standing armies.
- Abolition of all exceptional laws, especially those relating to the press, public meetings, and associations—in short, of all laws which hinder the free expression of ideas and thought.
- Gratuitous administration of justice by the people.
- General and equal, popular and gratuitous education by the Government in all classes and institutes of learning; general duty to attend school; religion to be declared a private affair.
The German Social Workingmen's party insists on realizing in the present state of society:
- The largest possible extension of political rights and freedom in conformity to the