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• LEGAL BACKGROUND TO THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNALS AND THEIR OPERATION IN HUNGARY The System of People's Tribunals and the Actors in the Process The Crimes and the Range of Punishments Controversies Surrounding the Law on People's Tribunals RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Method of Approach Preparation Phase Pilot research Expert roundtable Training of the Encoders The Final Questionnaire Research Phase Sampling procedure From filling in the questionnaires to the data files Preparing the data files for analysis Several Notes on the Methodology and the Findings ANALYSIS OF THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL CASES Types of Cases Distribution of the types of cases over time Characteristics of the Case Files Analysis of the Various Actors in the People's Tribunals Summary of the Demographics of Defendants and Witnesses in the Various Types of Cases Lawyers Characteristics of the People's Tribunal Cases The length of trials and the number of hearings The role of witnesses at the people's tribunals Judgments Effect of the composition of witnesses on judgments A GENDERED ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL JUSTICE IN HUNGARY IN THE AFTERMATH OF WWII Women in Political Justice: Stereotypes and Reality about Women Perpetrators Witnesses Court Judgments Women People's Judges Summary: Gender in political justice JEWISH IDENTITY AND THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNALS Characteristics of the People's Tribunal Cases Defendants and Their Characteristics Witnesses and Their Characteristics Court Judgments Jewish Identity and the Practice of Political Justice SUMMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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In Hungary, which fell under Soviet influence at the end of WWII, those who had participated in the wartime atrocities were tried by so called people's courts. This book analyses this process in an objective, quantitative way, contributing to the present timely discussion on the Hungarian war guilt. The authors apply a special focus on the gender aspect of the trials.
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• LEGAL BACKGROUND TO THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNALS AND THEIR OPERATION IN HUNGARY The System of People's Tribunals and the Actors in the Process The Crimes and the Range of Punishments Controversies Surrounding the Law on People's Tribunals RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Method of Approach Preparation Phase Pilot research Expert roundtable Training of the Encoders The Final Questionnaire Research Phase Sampling procedure From filling in the questionnaires to the data files Preparing the data files for analysis Several Notes on the Methodology and the Findings ANALYSIS OF THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL CASES Types of Cases Distribution of the types of cases over time Characteristics of the Case Files Analysis of the Various Actors in the People's Tribunals Summary of the Demographics of Defendants and Witnesses in the Various Types of Cases Lawyers Characteristics of the People's Tribunal Cases The length of trials and the number of hearings The role of witnesses at the people's tribunals Judgments Effect of the composition of witnesses on judgments A GENDERED ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL JUSTICE IN HUNGARY IN THE AFTERMATH OF WWII Women in Political Justice: Stereotypes and Reality about Women Perpetrators Witnesses Court Judgments Women People's Judges Summary: Gender in political justice JEWISH IDENTITY AND THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNALS Characteristics of the People's Tribunal Cases Defendants and Their Characteristics Witnesses and Their Characteristics Court Judgments Jewish Identity and the Practice of Political Justice SUMMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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In Hungary, which fell under Soviet influence at the end of WWII, those who had participated in the wartime atrocities were tried by so called people's courts. This book analyses this process in an objective, quantitative way, contributing to the present timely discussion on the Hungarian war guilt. The authors apply a special focus on the gender aspect of the trials.
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• Part 1 The task of separating power: introduction
• the separation of powers doctrine during the period of constitution-making
• the separation of powers in state constitutions
• the transition from the articles of confederation to the federal constitution. Part 2 The conduct of government during the Washington administration: communications between the executive and legislative branches
• establishment of the departments of government
• the conduct of foreign relations - the Algiers problem' 'A more effectual mode of administering'. Part 3 Appropriations of power: historical roots in English Appropriations law
• fiscal constitutions
• the first Appropriations bills
• the heroic in the mundane. Part 4 Jefferson's "Shackles of power": Jefferson's changing roles - the challenge of consistency
• the federal city as a symbol of the separation of powers
• Jefferson's first annual message - a change in convention
• the war power - the conflict at Tripoli
• the spending power - specificity and deficiency of appropriations
• the Louisiana purchase. Part 5 The Judiciary Act of 1789 and judicial independence: the judiciary in France, England, and the United States
• the challenge of an independent judiciary
• the Judiciary Act's limitations on judicial power.
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The separation of powers along functional lines - legislative, executive, and judicial - has been a core concept of American constitutionalism since the Revolution. However, assertions of the importance of keeping the powers separate do not capture the complexity of the task when it is seen as separating power flowing from a single source - the people. Popular sovereignty did not underlie early versions of the separation of powers doctrine. This book aims to illustrate some of the challenges faced by US presidents, and others in Congress, over the history of the state.
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