Balázs György (szerk.): The abolition of serfdom and its impact on rural culture, Guide to the Exhibition Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Revolution and War if Independence of 1848-49 (Budapest-Szentendre, Museum of Hungarian Agriculture-Hungarian Open-Air Museum, 1998.)

NYOMATOTT B I) K A K K S T B K N, SB3S, Balítéletekről (On Prejudices) by Baron Wesselényi, Miklós (Light), and Stádium (State). He was sharply criticized by the Court and the conservative Hungarian nobility, which indicates that his writings were a real challenge. His friend, Wesselényi, Miklós, also argued that the reconciliation of the interests of landlords and serfs was an economic and moral obligation, if not the only guarantee of the survival of the Hungarian nation The fact that one part of the nation should not bear any burdens and pay obviously nothing, while the other portion of the population should carry all burdens and support the country alone, is a system that is diametrically opposed to the more enlightened spirit of our days." Only representatives of noble birth and those of the free royal cities and free boroughs, and the chapters could be present at the feudal Diet. The Upper House consisted of the aristocracy of rank, the highest dignitaries of the country, the lord lieutenants of the counties, and the Catholic archbishops and bishops. Public opinion was at first not informed of the sessions and the debates over the bills. So it Dietal Reports 27