Fodor György - Török József - Tusor Péter (szerk.): Felekezetek az Igazság szolgálatában: történelem, teológia, önazonosság (1500-2000) - Studia Theologica Budapestinensia 34. (2009)

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)

in Sibiu between 20-21 of January 1892 have reached the conclusion that only the intercession of the absolute power, the Monarch, as a representative of the highest interests of the State, can annihilate the injustice and reestablish the order in the inner structure of the State. Therefore, they decided that the Memorandum should be sent to him immediately.40

3. The Union from 191841

The document of the union of Transylvania with Romania, drawn up on the 18th of November (the Is' of December) 1918 in Alba-Iulia, by The National Assembly of all Romanians from Transylvania, Banat and the Hungarian Country is edifying for the consciousness of the religious identity of the Romanians. On account of the testifying aspect of faith, which was assumed by the Romanians, the Romanian nation does not restrain the religious freedom of the other nations, but asserts that, after the union, justice and freedom should be guaranteed for all the nations, either big or small alike. On this occasion, The National Assembly salutes with love and enthusiasm the liberation of the subdued nations until now by the Aus- trian-Hungarian Monarchy: Czechoslovak, Austrian-German, Yugoslav, Polish and Ruthenian, a gesture of a genuine gladness in/out of freedom and for the freedom of the other.

4. Acts of acknowledgement of the religious freedom of the others

As fundamental principles for the building of the new Romanian state, the National Assembly proclaims, before all, the full national freedom for all the co-inhabiting nationalities. Each nation has the right to instruct, to administer and to judge in its own language, by its own people, as well as the right to be represented in the legislative bodies and in the government, proportionally with the number of its individualities. Being free from the authority of a

40 Ibidem, p. 336-337.

41 The Union of the Romanian Principalities with Transylvania was decided by The National Assembly of all Romanians from Transylvania, Banal and the Hungarian ('.ounlry in Alba-Iulia, on the 18,h of November (the l- of December) 1918. See §tefan PASCU, The Great National Assembly from Alba-Iulia, Cluj-Napoca 1968; C. Diuresen, The History of Romanians, 3 volumes, Ed. All, Bucharest 2007.

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