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István Kajtár
Parliamentary democracy is one of the principles of modern constitutional law.
In addition to the iconography, symbolism and ethnography of law, and other fields, the architecture of public law is part of the cultural history of law.
The buildings of the legislatures in Germany were varied. The city hall of Regensburg and later on the Paulskirche show this diversity very well. The final parliamentary building of the Empire to be built was the Reichstag. This monumental construction was destroyed in 1945. The constitution of the democracy of Weimar was written in 1919 in the National Theatre of Weimar.
In Austria, the Imperial Riding School (shortly after, the episcopal palace in the town of Kremsier) became in 1848/9 the centre for parliament. Parliamentary institutions were renewed in 1861, and at first had temporary residences. The final parliamentary building, planned by Theofil von Hansen, was a Hellenistic symbol of politics and democracy.
Parliamentary buildings in other countries (the Luxembourg Palace, the Bourbon Palace, the English Houses of Parliament, Capitol Hill, the parliamentary building of Pozsony and the present Hungarian Houses of Parliament) also play an important role not only in the history of law, but in the history of architecture.
Likewise, the architecture of city halls, courts, and ministerial buildings can be examined from the viewpoint of legal culture.
