Alkotmányos változások az 1860-as évek második felében

The composite jubilee of the year 1867–68 provides the topic for this paper. We examine how the year 1867–68 influenced both the international relationship and the constitutional changes through the world. The apparent and evident parallelism between the countries having constitutional changes gave the hint to scrutinise other events of constitutional history. The significant changes in the form of government or constitution of a country have a great impact on the neighbouring countries and politics. This phenomenon is the root of our examination, namely, to analyse the corresponding events and the constitutional changes having mutual dependency. Therefore, we draw the process of the changes of 1867–68 mostly in a descriptive way, since the Hungarian and / or other foreign readers may not be so well learnt on the history of the other side of the world, just as they are of their own history. After that, the paper makes a comparison of the detailed processes of the constitutional development of the countries with an eye to the formation of the alliances of the First World War, as the endpoint of the termination started in 1867. Therefore, we have chosen to scrutinize the constitutional changes of Canada, USA, Great-Britain, Austria-Hungary and Japan. This spectre may seem too broad at first, however, the mutual dependence requires even a schematic or orientating examination of all these countries. The constitutional changes are always embedded in the international relations and politics of the countries, as that being the net or frame that makes the changes either possible, or to the contrary, hinders the countries from realising them