1956 erkölcsi és jogi megítélése, avagy a jog válaszadási képességének erkölcsi egysége mint a totalitarizmusok utáni korszak dilemmája

Varga, Csaba (2007) 1956 erkölcsi és jogi megítélése, avagy a jog válaszadási képességének erkölcsi egysége mint a totalitarizmusok utáni korszak dilemmája. IUSTUM AEQUUM SALUTARE, 3 (1). pp. 31-44. ISSN 1787-3223

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1956 AS JUDGED BY ETHICS AND LAW, OR THE MORAL UNITY OF THE LAW’S RESPONSIVENESS AS A POST-TOTALITARIAN DILEMMA It is a shame for law and order built upon the ruins of Communism that by referring to the Constitution’s clause on Hungary as “an independent democratic country ruled by the law”, the new regime’s privileged legal protection has been extended to the criminal deed of the dictatorial past by a gesture equating physical time of the period of lawlessness to legal time under consolidate conditions, i.e., to legal time with expiry when the period of statutory limitations is passed. For the Constitutional Court declared that facing with a past of law-annihilation is excluded from this very rule of law, if the perpetrator implemented for itself a pardon. Or, accordingly, our formal legal instrumentality positively sanctions even political murder and torture provided that the state, having once commissioned such deeds, keeps on to be dictatorial enough to survive the period of limitations it granted for itself. This is a vacuum of moral ethos, further aggravated by the circumstance that the same Court has acknowledged the availability of a legal response surpassing limitations if a forum superior to it, i.e., international humanitarian law, would impose it. Such an indifference rejecting the very basics of justice and equity can easily degenerate into a factor blocking the ideal rule of law from being fed back by democratic popular support.

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