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Author:   Dr Ferenc Hörcher (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) ,  Dr Thomas Lorman (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9781350170186

ISBN 10:   1350170186
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   25 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations List of Contributors 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): Constitution of the Hungarian People’s Republic Appendix XIV: The Fundamental Law of Hungary: God bless the Hungarians Bibliography Index

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Ferenc Hörcher is Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Aesthetics at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 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 (UK). 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.

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