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Hungary's long nineteenth century : constitutional and democratic traditions in a European perspective /

Based on a professional lifetime of research, teaching and passionate scholarly debates, the author reassesses some of the key events, turning points, concepts, personalities, categories, institutions and legal framework on which Hungary's constitutional and social progress rested from the mid-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Péter, László
Otros Autores: Lojkó, Miklós
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.
Colección:Central and Eastern Europe.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hungary's Long Nineteenth Century; Copyright; Contents; Central and Eastern Europe: Regional Perspectives in Global Context; Editorial Preface; Preface; Introduction; The Traditional Vocabulary; The Conversion of the Constitution; Two Historians; 1 The Holy Crown of Hungary, Visible and Invisible; The Crown of St Stephen and its Provenance; The Cult of St Stephen's Crown; The Visible and the Invisible Crown Compared; Rex and Corona: The Incumbent and the Institution; Corona Regni; Werboczy on the Holy Crown; Reincorporation with the Crown and the Ország.
  • The Holy Crown Uses in Statute Laws and Government InstrumentsThe Lands of the Hungarian (Holy) Crown; The Inveterate Crown Uses; The Extension of the Holy Crown Membership; The Holy Crown, the Nation and the Constitution; Limited versus Mixed Monarchy in the Jurists' Works; The Making of the Doctrine of the Holy Crown; Hungarian Exceptionalism; The Impact of the Doctrine; The Utility of the Doctrine; Against the Current: Eckhart; Revival; Conclusions; 2 Ius Resistendi in Hungary; Resistance as a Right; Werboczy and the Ius Resistendi; Contractualism; Conclusions.
  • 3 The Irrepressible Authority of Werboczy's TripartitumDecreta Regni; Legislation and Consuetudo; The Ascendance and the Eclipse of the Tripartitum; Jurists and the Two-Track View of Legal Sources; Werboczy Reclaimed; 4 Montesquieu's Paradox on Freedom and Hungary's Constitutions 1790-1990; The Paradox; Montesquieu and the Hungarian Constitution; The 'Kinship Theory'; The Communists; After Communism; 5 Language, the Constitution, and the Past in Hungarian Nationalism; Language; The Constitution; Epilogue; 6 Lajos Kossuth and the Conversion of the Constitution.
  • 7 The Dualist Character of the 1867 Hungarian SettlementThe Quasi-Legal Character of Politics in the Monarchy and the Gloss on the 1867 Settlement; The Statutory View of Public Law; The Concept of the State; The Concept of Legal Sovereignty: The Doctrine of the Holy Crown; Political Crises and the 1867 Settlement; The Osi (Ancient) and the Korszeru (Modern) Constitution; The Dualism of Crown and Ország; The Habsburg Empire and the Conversion of the Rights and Duties of Crown and Ország into Constitutional Laws; Deák's May Programme of 1865; The 'Outline' of the Subcommittee of Fifteen.
  • Law XII of 1867The Nature of the Settlement; The Ausgleich with the Other Lands; The Monarch and the Union of the Lands; 8 The Autocratic Principle of the Law and Civil Rights in Nineteenth-Century Hungary; The Rights of the Individual; The Autocratic Principle of the Law; Property Rights and Legal Equality; Personal Rights; Civil Rights; The Right of Association; Regulation of Associations by the Ministry of the Interior; Ministerial Regulation of Public Assembly; Conclusions; 9 The Aristocracy, the Gentry and Their Parliamentary Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Hungary; Introduction.