Disarming the Guardians – the Transformation of the Hungarian Constitutional Court After 2010

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Chapter 7 - Disarming the Guardians – the Transformation of the Hungarian Constitutional Court After 2010

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2022

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Adam Czarnota and

Martin Krygier: Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Adam Czarnota: Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Wojciech Sadurski: Affiliation:
University of Sydney

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As a result of the democratic transitions at the end of the 1980s, constitutional courts became crucial institutions in the constitutional systems of Central and Eastern Europe. As Wojciech Sadurski emphasises, while the effectiveness of these tribunals varies, they have made a strong mark on the process of constitutional transition.1 In the next decades, constitutional courts themselves, or their doctrinal supporters and commentators, did not have to defend their position in terms of its legitimacy in a democracy; such legitimacy was assumed rather than contested and debated.2 However, there have been cases of constitutional courts in the region under political attack from the other branches of government, especially from the executive, and ‘so it must be observed that the exalted position of the constitutional courts within domestic political systems is never particularly stable’.3

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Information: Anti-Constitutional Populism , pp. 254 - 294

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