A history of the Hungarian constitution : law, government and political culture in central Europe

A history of the Hungarian constitution law, government and political culture in central Europe

"The new Hungarian Basic Law, which was ratified on 1 January 2012, provoked domestic and international controversy. Of particular concern was the constitutional text's explicit claim that it was situated within a reinvigorated Hungarian legal tradition that had allegedly developed over ce...

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Otros Autores: Horkay Hörcher, Ferenc (-), Lorman, Thomas
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : I.B. Tauris 2019.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
International library of historical studies.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46268674*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Appendix XIV: The Fundamental Law of Hungary: God bless the Hungarians
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • 1. Introduction, Philip Barker and Thomas Lorman
  • 2. Law and the Ancient Constitution in Medieval and Early Modern Hungary, Martyn Rady
  • 3. The Birth of the Constitution in Eighteenth-Century Hungarian Political Thought, Istvǹ M. Szijarto
  • 4. Resurrecting the Past, Reshaping the Future: The Rise of the 'Ancient Constitution' at the Diet of 1790/1, Philip Barker
  • 5. Reforming or Replacing the Historical Constitution: Lajos Kossuth and the April Laws of 1848, Ferenc Horcher
  • 6. Reform Fever and Disillusionment: Constitutional Codification Fiascos of the Hungarian Liberals after the Settlement of 1867, Andrs̀ Cieger
  • 7. The Use and Abuse of Flexibility: Hungary's Historical Constitution, 1867?1919, Thomas Lorman
  • 8. Law I of 1920 and the Historical Constitution, Istvan Szabo
  • 9. Law I of 1946 and Law XX of 1949: Continuity or Discontinuity in Traditional Hungarian Constitutionalism? Balazs Fekete
  • 10. Is a Revival Possible?: Theoretical Reflections on the Historical Constitution, Kalman Pocza
  • 11. Epilogue: On the Future(s) of the Historical Constitution, Ferenc Hr̲cher and Kalman Pocza
  • Appendix I: Primary Sources on Hungarian Constitutional History: The Golden Bull of 1222
  • Appendix II: The Rk̀os Declaration (1505)
  • Appendix III: Extracts from Stephen Werboczy's Tripartitum (1517)
  • Appendix IV: The Laws of 1687
  • Appendix V: The Laws of 1790/1
  • Appendix VI: Robert Townson's Translation of Law XXVI of 1790/1
  • Appendix VII: The 'April Laws' of 1848
  • Appendix VIII: Law XII of 1867
  • Appendix IX: The Declaration of the First Hungarian Republic (November 1918)
  • Appendix X: The Preamble to the Constitution of the Hungarian Socialist Federal Republic of Councils (1919)
  • Appendix XI: The Preamble to Law I of 1920
  • Appendix XII: The Preamble to Law I of 1946: On the form of Government of Hungary
  • Appendix XIII: The Constitution of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949): Constitution of the Hungarian People's Republic
  • Appendix XIV: The Fundamental Law of Hungary: God bless the Hungarians
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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