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So it goes : part I
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Verfassungsblog, 2020, OnlineOnly
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HALMAI, Gábor, MÉSZÁROS, Gábor, SCHEPPELE, Kim Lane, So it goes : part I, Verfassungsblog, 2020, OnlineOnly - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/92683
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In his novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. used the memorable phrase ‘so it goes’ every time someone died. According to Vonnegut, the ‘Trafalmadorians’ started the practice, because they experience past, present and future in random order and so, to them, death is just someone having a bad day. Defining the Hungarian constitutional regime turns legal analysts into Trafalmadorians. We find that Hungarian democracy dies over and over again while appearing alive in between deaths, sometimes achieving both states almost simultaneously. We say “so it goes” one day only to have to say “so it goes” again the next.
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Published online: 19 November 2020