Hungary's long nineteenth century

• Central and Eastern Europe, Series Preface
• p. ix

• Editorial Preface
• p. xiii

• Preface
• p. xxi

• Introduction
• p. 1

• The Traditional Vocabulary
• p. 3

• The Conversion of the Constitution
• p. 6

• Two Historians
• p. 11

• 1
• The Holy Crown of Hungary, Visible and Invisible
• p. 15

• The Crown of St Stephen and its Provenance
• p. 18

• The Cult of St Stephen's Crown
• p. 25

• The Visible and the Invisible Crown Compared
• p. 33

• Rex and Corona: The Incumbent and the Institution
• p. 34

• Corona Regni
• p. 40

• Werboczy on the Holy Crown
• p. 44

• Reincorporation with the Crown and the Ország
• p. 49

• The Holy Crown Uses in Statute Laws and Government Instruments
• p. 52

• The Lands of the Hungarian (Holy) Crown
• p. 56

• The Inveterate Crown Uses
• p. 58

• The Extension of the Holy Crown Membership
• p. 60

• The Holy Crown, the Nation and the Constitution
• p. 65

• Limited versus Mixed Monarchy in the Jurists' Works
• p. 70

• The Making of the Doctrine of the Holy Crown
• p. 77

• Hungarian Exceptionalism
• p. 86

• The Impact of the Doctrine
• p. 90

• The Utility of the Doctrine
• p. 93

• Against the Current: Eckhart
• p. 96

• Revival
• p. 101

• Conclusions
• p. 106

• 2
• Ius Resistendi in Hungary
• p. 113

• Resistance as a Right
• p. 113

• Werboczy and the Ius Resistendi
• p. 119

• Contractualism
• p. 125

• Conclusions
• p. 130

• 3
• The Irrepressible Authority of Werboczy's Tripartitum
• p. 134

• Decreta Regni
• p. 137

• Legislation and Consuetudo
• p. 140

• The Ascendance and the Eclipse of the Tripartitum
• p. 141

• Jurists and the Two-Track View of Legal Sources
• p. 145

• Werboczy Reclaimed
• p. 148

• 4
• Montesquieu's Paradox on Freedom and Hungary's Constitutions 1790-1990
• p. 153

• The Paradox
• p. 153

• Montesquieu and the Hungarian Constitution
• p. 155

• The 'Kinship Theory'
• p. 161

• The Communists
• p. 167

• After Communism
• p. 168

• 5
• Language, the Constitution, and the Past in Hungarian Nationalism
• p. 183

• Language
• p. 184

• The Constitution
• p. 191

• Epilogue
• p. 196

• 6
• Lajos Kossuth and the Conversion of the Constitution
• p. 199

• 7
• The Dualist Character of the 1867 Hungarian Settlement
• p. 213

• The Quasi-Legal Character of Politics in the Monarchy and the Glossy on the 1867 Settlement
• p. 216

• The Statutory View of Public Law
• p. 220

• The Concept of the State
• p. 221

• The Concept of Legal Sovereignty: The Doctrine of the Holy Crown
• p. 223

• Political Crises and the 1867 Settlement
• p. 226

• The osi (Ancient) and the Korszeru (Modern) Constitution
• p. 228

• The Dualism of Crown and Ország
• p. 232

• The Habsburg Empire and the Conversion of the Rights and Duties of Crown and Ország into Constitutional Laws
• p. 235

• Deák's May Programme of 1865
• p. 240

• The 'Outline' of the Subcommittee of Fifteen
• p. 244

• Law XII of 1867
• p. 251

• The Nature of the Settlement
• p. 258

• The Ausgleich with the Other Lands
• p. 264

• The Monarch and the Union of the Lands
• p. 275

• 8
• The Autocratic Principle of the Law and Civil Rights in Nineteenth-Century Hungary
• p. 281

• The Rights of the Individual
• p. 281

• The Autocratic Principle of the Law
• p. 282

• Property Rights and Legal Equality
• p. 285

• Personal Rights
• p. 288

• Civil Rights
• p. 290

• The Right of Association
• p. 291

• Regulation of Associations by the Ministry of the Interior
• p. 294

• Ministerial Regulation of Public Assembly
• p. 298

• Conclusions
• p. 301

• 9
• The Aristocracy, the Gentry and their Parliamentary Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Hungary
• p. 305

• Introduction
• p. 305

• Social Reform and the Landowning Élite
• p. 309

• The Character of Political Reform
• p. 314

• Aristocracy versus Gentry
• p. 320

• The Political Traditions of the Aristocracy and the Gentry
• p. 325

• The Influence of the Aristocracy on Political Issues
• p. 328

• Conclusions
• p. 340

• 10
• Law XLIV of 1868 'On the Equality of Nationality Rights' and the Language of Local Administration
• p. 343

• 11
• The Army Question in Hungarian Politics 1867-1918
• p. 355

• The Constitutional Question
• p. 355

• The Army Question and the Constitution
• p. 357

• The 1867 Constitutional Settlement and the Army
• p. 359

• After the 1867 Settlement
• p. 363

• The Army Question and Apponyi
• p. 364

• The Watershed: The 1889 Great Defence Debate
• p. 369

• The Army Crisis of 1903
• p. 374

• The Swing of the Pendulum
• p. 379

• Conclusions
• p. 380

• 12
• Intellectuals and the Future in the Habsburg Monarchy 1890-1914 (with Robert Pynsent)
• p. 393

• The German Culture
• p. 393

• The Culture of the Lands
• p. 394

• The fin-de-siècle
• p. 398

• 13
• Church-State Relations and Civil Society in Hungary: A Historical Perspective
• p. 405

• The Need for a Historical Perspective
• p. 405

• The Autocratic Principle of the Law
• p. 406

• The Legal Position of the Churches
• p. 409

• Equality of Religion in Legislation
• p. 411

• The Three Classes of Religion
• p. 416

• Received Religions
• p. 416

• Tolerated Religions
• p. 419

• Recognised Religions
• p. 420

• The Balance-Sheet of Church-State Relations
• p. 423

• Church-State Relations under the Communist System
• p. 425

• Church-State Relations in Crisis
• p. 430

• The Reconstruction of Church-State Relations
• p. 434

• 14
• R. W. Seton-Watson's Changing Views on the National Question of the Habsburg Monarchy and the European Balance of Power
• p. 438

• Germanophile
• p. 440

• Hungarian Independentist
• p. 447

• Defender of the Nationalities
• p. 457

• Epilogue and Conclusions
• p. 462

• Index
• p. 467