The Sovereignty Problem and Hungarian Political-Legal Thought from the Reform Era to the End of the First World War

Abstract

My research was linked to the implementation of the HUN-REN–ELTE Legal History Research Group’s plan by investigating two areas. One of them can be called methodological in the sense that I looked at the history of the meaning of the basic concepts of sovereignty and the theories that influence the current analytical position. The other area was to explore the ideas of the centralists, especially József Eötvös, in the Hungarian legal-political thought of the 19^th century, with a view to the Hungarian conservative thought of the time. In doing so, I also applied a historical perspective.