CARLSBAD • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Carlsbad

... control of the Press; they gave the police the right of forbidding a newspaper to appear for no other reason except disapproval of its general tendency. It was a power more extreme than in the worst days of the Carlsbad decrees had ever been claimed by any German Government. The ordinances were based on a clause in the Constitution which gave the Government at times of crisis, if Parliament were not sitting, the power of making special regulations for the government of the Press. The reference ...

— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam