The President of the Republic praised the issuance of the Golden Bull eight hundred years ago as a defining event of our thousand-year statehood in Budapest on Thursday.
Katalin Novák spoke in the Parliament, at the ceremonial commemorative session of the series of programs organized by the Office of the Parliament for the anniversary of the publication of the document.
He emphasized: the Golden Bull became the basis and point of reference for our constitutional development, "a source of reinforcement and self-esteem for today's Hungarians; it confirms us that we are worthy of the heritage of our fathers and the respect of others, it reminds us that we do not suffer, but write the history of Europe ourselves".
The Golden Bull is proof of the historical commitment of Hungarians to freedom and legality, and at the same time a stand for the priority of the country's interests, said the President of the Republic.
He recalled: the Golden Bull is the first law in which the monarch consents to the limitation of his rights, "a contract between the royal power and the country", but it is also an important European document of the era, as it proves that in the first centuries of the Hungarian state's existence "it functioned in harmony in most areas of life with other countries of Christian Europe and even ahead of many in terms of legal development, principles of freedom and political innovations".
Rights and duties, freedom and its limits, are viable together, because freedom can only have its effect within the limits that protect freedom. Our right in the 21st century is to live Hungarian freedom, and our duty in the 21st century is to protect the spiritual, spiritual and physical borders that protect Hungarian freedom - said the head of state in his speech.
Citing a modern example, the President of the Republic, Katalin Novák, emphasized: the oath taken to the Basic Law is the basis of the accountability of those who assume office, one of the cornerstones of democracy. It is a modern, democratic constitution, even if some people question it out of bad faith or little faith, the head of state added.
László Kövér, the President of the Parliament, in his speech opening the memorial session, emphasized that although the physical original will probably never be found again,
"we have found the ideological reality of the Golden Bull: it is there in the Hungarians' love of freedom, it is integrated into the DNA structure of our nation's constitutional self-identity".
When would it be more timely to remember the Golden Bull than today, when in the European Union Hungary is fighting for the respect of its national right to dissent against Brussels' plans that threaten its own existence?
When would it be more timely to talk about the historicity of property rights and property protection in connection with the Golden Bull than today, when the representatives of the global economic and political private powers that seek to limit and manipulate democratically controlled public power across continents and state borders have openly told everyone that in the times ahead, "you will have nothing and you will be happy", i.e. did they announce the program and slogan of the abolition of private property in the Western world? asked the President of the Parliament at the event.
Tamás Sulyok, the president of the Constitutional Court, emphasized in his presentation: the Golden Bull decisively determined the direction of Hungarian constitutional development, it is an extremely important part of national and constitutional identity, and the former right of resistance has grown into a system of guarantee rules.
László Trócsányi, Fidesz member of the European Parliament (EP) and former Minister of Justice, warned in his presentation:
European federalist tendencies try to subordinate national constitutions to EU treaties.
At the end of the festive session, László Kövér announced that the Parliament would enshrine the memory and significance of the Golden Bull in a law and that April 24 would be the day of the Golden Bull.
Source and full article: Felvidek.ma
Featured image: MTI/Noémi Bruzák
