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I. Catholic-Orthodox symbiosis in Transylvania (Katolikus-ortodox együttélés Erdélyben) - Ioan Chirila: Tolerance and intolerance in t he Transylvanian legislative corpora (the 16th-19th centuries)

manifested in 1848.32 The Hungarian authorities refuse to Romanians the right to take part to the public life of their country, which reaches the highest expression in the diet of the country. In this situation, the Romanians request the abolition of the unjust laws and their illegal application, because these laws make the participation of the Romanians to the public life impossible.33

b) The Law for the equal rights of nationalities, although imperfect, could have encouraged the Romanians to contribute to the strength of the Hungarian state, if it had been applied with good faith. But all the efforts of the Romanians directed to the propagation of the culture among the masses and to the training of some qualified persons in the highest centers of education in the West, who have now diplomas for all branches of science, are useless if the Hungarian authorities avoid accepting Romanians (or other nationalities) in the public offices. In spite of their solid training, the Romanians withdraw from the public life of their country, because they don’t find justice either in the Court of Law, in the administration or in the other spheres of the public life. This is a consequence of the fact that, in spite of the promulgation of the law for the equal rights of nationalities, in the public life the will of the people is neglected, if it is not Hungarian.34

32 Pompilii» Teodor et al., The Memorandum, p. 309.

33 Ibidem, p. 313-314: “Your Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, The Romanians have always wanted and still want to take part to the public life of their country, which reaches the highest expression in the diet of the country, moreover, they have requested and still do their right to this participation, as well as their acknowledgement as factor in the frame of the public law in the Hungarian state: they expect now nothing else but to have the permission of taking part to the public life... In the circumstances that have been created on purpose by unjust laws and by their illegal application, this participation is impossible; we are comforted by the thought that Your Majesty has been convinced by now that the passive resistance of the Romanians is justified, imposed against their good will and against all postulates according to the law”.

34 Ibidem, p. 318: “We, Romanians, have made in the last decades great efforts and brought huge sacrifices in order to propagate the culture among the masses and to train some persons qualified at the highest centers of education in the West, and today, there are among us thousands of people with a western culture, heaving diplomas in all the branches of science and for all fields of study. But the present Hungarian councilors of Your Majesty, being aware of the discontentment of the Romanians, avoid appointing Romanians in the public offices, and the educated Romanians, seeing the efforts of the government against the

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