A horvát 1861. évi LXII. törvénycikk királyi szentesítésének legendája és legitimációs funkciója
The Legend of the Royal Sanction for Act LXII of the Croatian Law of 1861, and its Legitimization Function

Summary/Abstract: As a precondition of the constitutional relationship between Hungary and Croatia, act LXII of the Croatian sabor in 1861 demanded the acknowledgement of independent Croatian statehood, the unification of Croatian territory on a historical and ethnical basis, and the exclusive competence of the Croatian state in matters of administration, religion and education and justice. Despite the dissolution of the sabor, the act was endorsed by the ruler’s rescript that was drafted with the aim of maintaining the dynastic loyalty of the Croats. In 1865, this rescript was already qualified in the pro-government press of Zagreb as an official act of royal sanction. Through the prospects of independent statehood and territorial unification, this purposeful reinterpretation served the aim of the integration of Croatia into the centralised Habsburg monarchy, and that of preventing the acceptance Austro–Hungarian constitutional dualism.

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