Hungary's new constitutional regime is proving far less stable than its creators had promised. Even before it entered into effect last January, the governing parties had added a number of provisions to the Fundamental Law, some of which the Constitutional Court quashed on formal grounds. With the Court throwing out a number of other important laws, too, the government appears to have had enough: the impending, fourth amendment of the Fundamental Law will impose another straitjacket on the Constitutional Court, in addition to elevating previously quashed laws to constitutional rank.

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