Political position and role of the Upper Chamber of the Hungarian Diet in the process of civil transformation

The main and most spectacular scene of the political battles of the Hungarian reform era was thus the bicameral Diet, where, with some simplification, the conservative governing party and the ever-growing reform opposition clashed. There is agreement in the Hungarian special literature that the Habsburg government has been able to exert a greater influence on the Upper Chamber and use them to defend absolutism and to halt progress, but so far historical research has focused primarily on the Lower hamber, off where the law initiatives were started. This study attempts to show who at all, how many of them and by what political proportions, participated in the Upper Chamber of the Hungarian Diet, and how effectively they could fulfill the role assigned to them by the government.