A history of the Hungarian constitution : law, government and political culture in central Europe / edited by Ferenc Hörcher, Thomas Lorman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horkay Hörcher, Ferenc, editor.

Lorman, Thomas, editor.

Series:

International library of historical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--Hungary.

Constitutional history.

Politics and culture.

History.

Hungary.

Politics and culture--Hungary--History.

Hungary--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Law.

Physical Description:

xvi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Contents:

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 / István M. Szijártó

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 Hörcher

6. Reform Fever and Disillusionment: Constitutional Codification Fiascos of the Hungarian Liberals after the Settlement of 1867 / András 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 / István Szabó

9. Law I of 1946 and Law XX of 1949: Continuity or Discontinuity in Traditional Hungarian Constitutionalism? / Balázs Fekete

10. Is a Revival Possible?: Theoretical Reflections on the Historical Constitution / Kálmán Pócza

11. Epilogue: On the Future(s) of the Historical Constitution / Ferenc Hörcher and Kálmán Pócza

Appendix I: Primary Sources on Hungarian Constitutional History: The Golden Bull of 1222

Appendix II: The Rákos 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)

Appendix XIV: Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Hungary (1989)

Appendix XV. The Fundamental Law of Hungary

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788312639

1788312635

OCLC:

1079345401