The latest regulation of religious freedom and the establishment of churches in Hungary

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Law - Miscellaneous, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church (Faculty of Law), language: English, abstract: The Hungarian constitution making process grounding and improving the change in the political system has been aided since the 1980s by several studies containing modern legal principles and human and fundamental rights, as well as presenting the constitutional institutions of developed civil countries. The preamble of the modified constitution made during the national round table discussions preparing the change in the political system in 1989 declared that the Parliament established the text of the Hungarian constitution in order to facilitate peaceful political transmission into a state based on the rule of law realising pluralism, parliamentary democracy and social market economy ¿ till the enactment of the new constitution. Even though intensive political and professional negotiations were conducted between 1994 and 1998 for the preparations of a modern rule of law constitution, these remained unsuccessful. At the same time, however, significant changes happened in our globalised and multicultural world1, which made the adjustment of national constitution to international standards timely.