The author documents and analyses a paradigm shift in constitutional law, listing the most important cases of Hungarian, European and partly American public law debates. These cover the specificities of constitutional power, the 'power struggles' between legislative and constitutional bodies arising from debates on legal-political constitutionalism, and some case studies in public law. In the context of constitutional identity, the volume analyses the problems arising from the conflict between European law and national constitutions, the struggle between federalism and sovereignty.

The case studies deal with the challenges to the basic principles of classical constitutionalism in the paradigm debates of the last decade of Hungarian constitutionalism, elaborating on the theses, positions and arguments of legislation, constitutional review and jurisprudence (whether on the elements of quality legislation, the legal status of churches, economic legislation, the constitutional foundations of the protection of sovereignty within the EU or the constitutionality of instruments to combat pandemics.)