"The Process of the Conceptual Transformation of a 'Nation without History' into a Constitutional Subject during the Revolutions of 1848-49"

This paper attempts to delineate the conceptual transformation of the
Slovaks into a modern nation as a constitutional subject during the years
1848/49. This transformation was influenced not only by the national
ideologue Ľudovít Štúr's (1815-56) exploiting the modern principles of
the natural right to national existence, but also by his invoking traditional
medieval corporate ideas as embodied in the Kingdom of Hungary and in
the Habsburg Monarchy.

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