O PROBLEMU UTVRĐIVANJA I OZAKONJENJA OSNOVNIH PRINCIPA UPRAVLJANJA BOSNOM I HERCEGOVINOM NA POČETKU AUSTRO-UGARSKE OKUPACIJE
ABOUT THE ISSUE OF DETERMINATION AND LEGALIZING BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNING BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ON THE BEGINNING OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN OCCUPATION

Summary/Abstract: The author has given a short survey of the controversies concerning the issue of governing Bosnia and Herzegovina in the course of the prolonged talks in the years 1878 and 1879 in which the emperor, the common ministers, and the representatives of the Austrian and the Hungarian governments took part. While the emperor, backed up by the Austrian Government, contended that there was no need for any special legislative act for ruling of Bosnia and Herzegovina, rejecting all ingerencies of legislation except in money matters, the Hungarian Government was categorically against leaving it exclusively to the Crown to govern Bosnia without any constitutional responsibilities taken over by ministers. The Hungarian Government, which was against widening of the domain of common organs of the Monarchy, was very cautious from the very beginning with the issue of Bosnian-Herzegovinian rule as a new function of the Common Ministry, as it was pregnant with the latent danger of destroying the delicate balance in the dualist system. That is the reason why count Tisza demanded legal guarantee which would, in accordance with the principles formulated in the Treaty of 1867, secure the Hungarian interests in influence and prevent possible undesired for channges. The issue of governing Bosnia and Herzegovina posed, soon after occupation, the problem not only of consituttionalism in both imperial states, but it also threatened to seriously jeopardize the Treaty of 1867 itself. The compromise which was finally arrived at by passing the Law of Governing Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1880, meant complete abandonment on the part of the emperor and the Austrian Government of the previous claims and full affirmation of the basic views of the Hungarian Government. The Law was characterized 6y a certain agreement of widening the circle of common affairs, and at the same t.me it secured equal rights of Austria and Hungary in the realm of Bosnian rule. Although it came into existence as a provisory solution, the Law remained in force until the fall of Austro-Hungary due to impotence of dualism to solve, within the framework of Monarchy, the question of the position of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the point of view of state law.

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