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)

nian nation should regain its rights and should receive the same place it had, according to the testimony of the Convent of the Holy Virgin Mary in Cluj-Mänä§tur from the year 1437. The orthodox clergy, the nobility and the Romanian plebs should have the same privileges as the clergy, the nobility and the plebs of the nations which form the system of the union.2'1 The local elections should be made proportionally to the number of the persons of each nation, the Romanians being no more excluded from the public offices. The counties, the seats, the districts and the urban communities in which the Romanians surpass in number the other nations should be named also with Romanian names, and the others, in which the other nations surpass in number the Romanians, should be named either according to the nation that has majority, or with a mixed name, Hungarian-Romanian, Saxon-Romanian, or, as a third possibility, being removed the name received from one nation or another, the counties, the seats and the districts should keep that name which they had until then according to rivers or walled cities; likewise, it should be proclaimed that all the citizens of the Principality, regardless of nation or religion, should make use and enjoy the same freedoms and privileges and should have the same obligations, according to their strength.29 30

2. The Memorandum31:

In its content, the Romanians accuse the Hungarians that they have taken in their hands all the power and the authority of the state and deprived the other nationalities of their rights, especially the Romanian nation, bringing as arguments some of the most important laws: the electoral Law, the Law for the equal rights of nationalities, the school Law, the town Law, the press Law and the agrarian laws.

a) The electoral Law, created for Transylvania, is the one taken as basis for the achievements of the Hungarian national intentions,

29 Ibidem, p. 478.

30 Ibidem, p. 479.

31 A diplomatic document containing the account of the facts and of the juridical arguments on the basis of which the Romanian people required, in 1852, to the Court in Vienna, its restoration in its rights.

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