nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200406-131348-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200406s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200406-131348-0 doi eng 342 23 Kovács, Kriszta Author aut Hungary’s Orbánistan: A Complete Arsenal of Emergency Powers Kovács, Kriszta Verfassungsblog 2020-04-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 23 March 1933, an act was adopted in Nazi Germany in response to the “crisis” of the Reichstag fire to enable Hitler to issue decrees independently of the Reichstag and the presidency. Article 48 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic made this act possible. Eighty-seven years later, on 23 March 2020, the so-called 'Enabling Act' was put before the Hungarian Parliament. This was drafted under emergency constitutional provisions in Articles 48-54. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 COVID 19 democracy emergency powers Enabling Act Lockdown Rule of Law State of Danger Ungarn Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/hungarys-orbanistan-a-complete-arsenal-of-emergency-powers/ raw object