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Why was Austria’s 1929 constitution restored after World War II?
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Following the liberation of Austria in 1945, the provisional government decided against drafting an entirely new constitution. Instead, they chose to restore the constitution of 1920, as amended by the laws of 1929, to serve as the foundation for the political and constitutional life of the Second Republic.123