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I.B. Tauris is publishing a book on the
constitutional history of Hungary.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 centuries before its violent interruption during World War II,
by German invaders, and later, by Soviet occupation.
To explore the context and validity of this
claim, and the legal traditions which have informed the stormy centuries of
Hungary's constitutional development, this book brings together a group of
leading historians, political scientists and legal scholars to produce a
comprehensive history of Hungarian constitutional thought. Ranging in scope
from an overview of Hungarian medieval jurisprudence to an assessment of the
various criticisms levelled at the new Hungarian Basis Law of 2012,
contributors assess the constitutions, their impacts and their legacies, as
well as the social and cultural contexts within which they were drafted. The
historical analysis is accompanied by a selection of original source materials,
many translated here for the first time. This is the only book in English on
the subject and is essential reading for all those interested in Hungary's
history, political culture and constitution.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ferenc Hoercher is Director of the Institute of
Philosophy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Aesthetics at
the Pazmany Peter Catholic University in Hungary. He has published widely on
philosophy, intellectual history, poetry, legal theory and politics and is a
also member of the editorial board of Hungarian Review.
Thomas Lorman is a teaching fellow at the
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London
(UCL). He is the author of Counter-Revolutionary Hungary 1920-1925 (2006) and
The Path to Fascism in Slovakia (I.B.Tauris, 2018). He has also published
extensively in peer-reviewed journals and is an editor of the journal Central
Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction
Philip Barker -
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
Istvan M.
Szijarto
4 Resurrecting
the Past, Reshaping the Future: The Rise of the `Ancient Constitution' at the
Diet of 1790/91
Philip Barker
5 Reforming or
Replacing the Historical Constitution: Lajos Kossuth and the April Laws of 1848
Ferenc Hoercher
6 Reform Fever
and Disillusionment: Constitutional Codification Fiascos of the Hungarian
Liberals after the Settlement of 1867
Andras 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 Hoercher
- Kalman Pocza
Appendix:
Primary Sources on Hungarian Constitutional History
1 The Golden
Bull of 1222
2 The Rakos
Declaration (1505)
3 Extracts from
Stephen Werb?czy's Tripartitum (1517)
4 The Laws of
1687
5 The Laws of
1790/91
6 Robert
Townson's Translation of Law XXVI of 1790/91
7 The `April
Laws' of 1848
8 Law XII of
1867
9 The
Declaration of the First Hungarian Republic (November 1918)
10 The Preamble
to the Constitution of the Hungarian Socialist Federal Republic of Councils
(1919)
11 The Preamble
to Law I of 1920
12 The Preamble
to Law I of 1946
13 The
Constitution of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949)
14 The
Fundamental Law of Hungary - National Avowal (2011)
Bibliography
More information
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