Croatian state right

Kušević based the idea on preservation and strengthening of town privileges, presenting Croatian state right as a means of defense against magyarisation.

The legal concept of Croatian state right was introdudced Josip Kušević in 1830 as a reference to the body of town privileges in Croatia.

[2] Following that decision, a power struggle developed between the Hungarian and Croatian elites, groups which generally encompassed nobility and more affluent bourgeoisie.

Hungarian elites promoted competing claims for a more centralised Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen encompassing Hungary and Croatia.

[3] Croatian state right was referenced in the same context by Janko Drašković in the 1832 manifesto of the Illyrian movement Dissertation or Conversation Presented to Lawful Gentlemen Representatives and Future Lawmakers of Our Kingdoms: Delegated to a Future Diet of Hungary, Held by an Old Native of These Kingdoms (Croatian: Disertatia iliti razgovor darovan gospodi poklisarom zakonskim i buduchjem zakonotvorzem kraljevinah nasih: za buduchu dietu ungarsku odaslanem, držan po jednom starom domorodcu kraljevinah ovih),[1] normally referred to as the Dissertation (Croatian: Disertacija).

[6] This definition of the Croatian state right created a conflict between Croatian nationalism and Serbian nationalism, as the latter advocated popular sovereignty which would erase borders of previously existing polities with the aim of uniting all Serbs in a single state, including the Serbs of Croatia.

[8] At the Sabor convened in 1861, following the end of the absolutist rule of Austrian prime minister Baron Alexander von Bach, Starčević and Kvaternik put forward pravaštvo (lit.

It also refers to the legal status of Croatia as a polity within the Kingdom of Hungary after the Pacta conventa, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary.