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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- From the Editor of the Volume
- Józef Piłsudski's Attitude toward the Cause of Austria and Germany in World War I
- The Role Played by the Constitutional Tribunal in Preserving the Liberal Nature of the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the 19th Century
- „Freie Kirche im freien Staat”: Die katholische Autonomiebewegung in Ungarn
- Prof. Andor Csizmadia Dr. Dr. h.c. and His Research into the Legal History of Dualism
- Gerichtsverfassung und Justizwesen in Ungarn um die Jahrhundertwende. Kurzer Überblick der tatsächlichen Verwirklichung der Trennung von Justiz und Verwaltung – richterliche Unabhängigkeit und Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit
- Constitutional Liberty in the Area of Emigration in Austria (1867–1918). The Activities of the Emigration Agencies in Galicia and Lodomeria
- Le roi manqué de Pologne — Stéphane II Habsburg
- The Cultural Heritage of the Hungarian Fideicommissa
- The Hungarian Feudal Institutions as Found in the Legal System of the Second Polish Republic. The Relationships between the Estate Manor and the Village in the Polish Spisz (Szepes) and Polish Orawa (Arva)
The Role Played by the Constitutional Tribunal in Preserving the Liberal Nature of the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the 19th Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- From the Editor of the Volume
- Józef Piłsudski's Attitude toward the Cause of Austria and Germany in World War I
- The Role Played by the Constitutional Tribunal in Preserving the Liberal Nature of the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the 19th Century
- „Freie Kirche im freien Staat”: Die katholische Autonomiebewegung in Ungarn
- Prof. Andor Csizmadia Dr. Dr. h.c. and His Research into the Legal History of Dualism
- Gerichtsverfassung und Justizwesen in Ungarn um die Jahrhundertwende. Kurzer Überblick der tatsächlichen Verwirklichung der Trennung von Justiz und Verwaltung – richterliche Unabhängigkeit und Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit
- Constitutional Liberty in the Area of Emigration in Austria (1867–1918). The Activities of the Emigration Agencies in Galicia and Lodomeria
- Le roi manqué de Pologne — Stéphane II Habsburg
- The Cultural Heritage of the Hungarian Fideicommissa
- The Hungarian Feudal Institutions as Found in the Legal System of the Second Polish Republic. The Relationships between the Estate Manor and the Village in the Polish Spisz (Szepes) and Polish Orawa (Arva)
Summary
It was on the basis of the constitutional laws of 21 December 1867 that were referred to as the December Constitution that the Austrian monarchy became the first European Rechtsstaat. Upon the Ausgleich with the Hungarians the Austrian Constitution reflected all these significant components of the German concept of Rechtsstaat that could not be brought into effect at the time of the Springtime of Nations 1848-1849. Among them there were the priority as given to the Constitution, separation of powers, subjecting the State apparatus to law, independent courts and independent judges as well as the catalogue of civil rights and liberties. The constitutional law on the universal civil rights of 1867 contained the most developed system of the rights of an individual in Europe of the time. It is until now that the basic rights (Grundrechte) contained in this law specify the constitutional scope of civil rights in Austria.
What was however the major guarantor of securing the constitutional order were the three tribunals of public law: the Constitutional Tribunal (Reichsgericht), the Administrative Tribunal (Verwaltungsgerichtshof), and the Tribunal of State (Staatsgerichtshof). Although the Constitutional Tribunal which functioned from 1869 was not competent to check whether the laws were consistent with the Constitution, nevertheless it safeguarded the Constitution since it examined the complaints filed by the citizens against the State agencies' infringements of the Constitution-guaranteed basic rights.
The Administrative Tribunal, which came to being in 1876, examined, in its turn, the complaints against these administrative decisions which infringed the law.
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- Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades before its FallThe Materials of Polish-Hungarian Conference - Cracow, September 2007, pp. 25 - 32Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2010