: An English version of the statute of
1868 regulating the status of Croatia-Slavonia is
printed in Drage, Austria-Hungary, 767-783. For
extended discussions of the subject see Drage, _op.
cit._, Chap. ii; Geosztanyi, in P. Alden (ed.),
Hungary of To-day, Chap. ii; G. Horn, Le Compromis
de 1868 entre la Croatie et la Hongrie (Paris,
1907); G. de Montbel, La condition politique de la
Croatie-Slavonie dans la monarchie austro-hongroise
(Toulouse, 1909); and R. Gonnard, Entre Drave et
Save; etudes economiques, politiques, et sociales
sur la Croatie-Slavonie (Paris, 1911). See also R.
Henry, La Hongrie, la Croatie, et les nationalites,
in _Questions Diplomatiques et Coloniales_, Aug.
16, 1907; J. Mailath Hongrie et Croatie, ibid.,
Nov. 1, 1907.]

CHAPTER XXVII (p. 509)

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: THE JOINT GOVERNMENT

*561. The Ausgleich.*--The unique political relation which subsists
to-day between the Empire of Austria and the kingdom of Hungary rests
upon the Ausgleich, or Compromise, of 1867, supplemented at certain
points by agreements of more recent date. The fundamental terms of the
arrangement, worked out by the Emperor Francis Joseph, Deak, and Baron
Beust, were incorporated in essentially identical statutes enacted by
the Hungarian Parliament and the Austrian Reichsrath December 21 and
24 of the year mentioned. Between the demand of Hungary, on the one
hand, for independence (save only in respect to the crown), and that
of Austria, on the other, for the thoroughgoing subordination of the
Hungarian to an Imperial ministry, there was devised a compromise
whose ruling principle is that of dualism rather than that of either
absolute unity or subordination. Under the name Austria-Hungary there
was established a novel type of state consisting of an empire and a
kingdom, each of which, retaining its identity unimpaired, stands in
law upon a plane of complete equality with the other. Each has its own
constitution, its own parliament, its own ministry, its own
administration, its own courts. Yet the two have but one sovereign and
one flag, and within certain large and important fields the
g