... it also represents the most famous missed opportunity' in the history of Austrian constitutionalism. The 1848 revolution had spared the Empire and left it with a Constituent Assembly. It was the role of the assembly to consider how the Empire could be ... to the outer world; the temporary economic union of Austria-Hungary; and two separate states (hence dualism'), Austria and Hungary. Furthermore it had an inbuilt element of instability; every decade the Hungarians could renegotiate the terms of tax payments for common purposes. Needless to say, these negotiations ... will, Austria di...

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