Hungary. Orszoggyules
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 50
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... questions in common with the representatives of the Hether secured. " reditary States."-1 11. But we find in these words no ground whatever for Constitutional the least re-assurance. The Constitutional Independence infrined06 of the country is seriously infringed by the very fact that that Majesty your Majesty, without the previous consent of the Diet, of theserd'inai your own might takes from the land this cardinal right; ri?h? nd that your Majesty, of your own authority, ordains laws, and, without its without once asking the Diet whether it accepts these c118611' essential alterations of its ancestral Constitution, treats the same as an accomplished fact, and commands us straightway to send representatives to the Council of the Empire, which will take the place of our Diet in exercising those rights with regard to Hungary. Thus it appears that your Majesty considers the Diet, not as a body which exercises in the name of the nation, in conjunction with your Majesty, the legislative power which is divided between the Sovereign and the nation, and without the consent of which a law can neither be made nor altered; but that your Majesty regards the Diet as a body which, in the very Considering it field of legislation, is bound to accept the commands ema-"aptand"1 nating from the sole will of the Sovereign as law; nay, is record as stabound further to inscribe them in the statute book, even $ kfDg.andates though they are in opposition to the Constitution and the sanctioned statutes of the realm. In what would then the Constitutional Independence of Hungary--whose legality the text of the Royal Rescript acknowledges--consist? And where would be the "guarantee of this indepen-What would " dence..".
