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One characteristics of tyranny is arbitrariness. Rákosi and his inner clique did whatever they wanted, not bound by the Constitution the constitution surely didn't allow kidnapping and torturing people on a whim. When he talks about that it means actually adhering to fundamental laws. And greater role for the Parliament probably meant that using the lawmaker body to make laws.
The book "On Communism..." has a preface and intro and whatnot. Written by some Anglos. They say that Nagy wrote about Western Democratic practices while still presenting them as communist inventions, which shows his idealism.
>executive-centric constitution
I might return to this.
I wrote about the 1949 Hungarian (Stalinist) Constitution ITT, starting here >>39389


I understand you are interested due to your current investigations you post about in the other thread.