Changes in the Constitutional Review of Legislation in Hungary

• Authors: Stumpf Istvan , ERDŐS Csaba
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the changes that had taken place in the relationship between the Parliament and the Constitutional Court through focusing on the development of the Constitutional Court’s competences, with particular attention to the review of constitutional amendments and constitutional control over the Parliament’s rules of procedure. We place special emphasis on summarizing those voices that had, from the very beginning, harshly criticized the fundamental rights activism of the Constitutional Court and laid the foundations for the political constitutionalism that has pervaded public life since the 2010 elections, as well as the ’public law revolution’ grounded in parliamentary sovereignty. This article further discusses new constitutional challenges, such as the joint responsibility of the Parliament and the Constitutional Court in safeguarding national sovereignty and constitutional identity, which opens a new dimension in the separation of powers.

Keywords

EN

constitutional court, parliamentary law, unconstitutional amendment of constitution, national identity, constitutional identity

• Publisher: Silesian University in Opava, Faculty of Public Policies, Czech Republic
• Journal: Central European Papers
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-46

Dates

published

2021-03-02

Contributors

author

Stumpf Istvan

author

ERDŐS Csaba