LAJOS KOSSUTH AND THE CONVERSION OF THE HUNGARIAN CONSTITUTION
LAJOS KOSSUTH AND THE CONVERSION OF THE HUNGARIAN CONSTITUTION
Author(s): LÁSZLÓ PÉTERSubject(s): History of Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Society, Political history, 19th Century
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: the Land (ország); the crown; dietalis tractatus; civil society; constitutional conversion; personal union; the State;
Summary/Abstract: The ancient constitution of Hungary consisted of the mutually recognised rights and obligations of two actors: the Crown and the nobility. The reformers aimed at creating a Hungarian civil society through legislation. Conversion meant the replacement of the constitution, based on rights, by another system, based on statute laws. The April Laws broke the back of the old social order based on hereditary right and laid the foundation of the new Hungary.
- Issue Year: 16/2002
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 147-156
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
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