Editing Transylvanian Memorandum (section)

==Status==
After the [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867]] (''Ausgleich''), [[Principality of Transylvania (1711–1867)|Transylvania]] again became the integral part of Hungary. Initially Romanians (through their representatives, the [[Romanian National Party]]) took part in the political life, however, since 1869 after several disagreements they chose to enter into political passivity. They had several complaints; i.e. Romanians formed the majority of [[Transylvania]]'s population, but they were underrepresented in the Hungarian Parliament due to electoral abuses and the higher property qualification required by the electoral laws,{{efn|According to [[Robert Seton-Watson]]'s  ''Corruption and Reform in Hungary – A Study of Electoral Practice''; such as declaring bridges as unsafe, placing all the horses under verterinary supervision to force the supporters of the opposition to make long detours on bad sideroads, keeping the body of peasant voters waiting for several days in rainy or frosty weather in order to make them quit or switch their allegiance, closing the polls at the discretion of the authorities, or, ultimately, the sheer use of violence by the [[Royal Hungarian Honvéd|Army]] or the [[Hungarian Royal Gendarme Veterans' Association#The Roots of the MKCsBK: The Hungarian Royal Gendarmerie|Gendarmerie]]),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/corruptionreform00setouoft|title=Corruption and Reform in Hungary – A Study of Electoral Practice|last=Seton-Watson|first=Robert William|author-link=Robert Seton-Watson|year=1911|pages=[https://archive.org/details/corruptionreform00setouoft/page/9 9]–10}}</ref> gerrymandering,<ref name="rwseton7">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/corruptionreform00setouoft|title=Corruption and Reform in Hungary – A Study of Electoral Practice|last=Seton-Watson|first=Robert William|author-link=Robert Seton-Watson|year=1911|page=[https://archive.org/details/corruptionreform00setouoft/page/7 7]}}</ref> and the higher property qualification required in Transylvania by the electoral laws  (due to this different property qualification for Transylvania, an ethnic Romanian peasant had to own "at least six times as much land as his Magyar equal, before he can obtain a vote").<ref name="rwseton7"/>}}<ref name="jelavich">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hd-or3qtqrsC&pg=PA72|title=History of the Balkans|last=Jelavich|first=Barbara|author-link=Barbara Jelavich|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=2|page=72|isbn=0-521-27459-1|year=1983}}</ref> they were subjected to [[Magyarization]] and they resented that Transylvania had lost its autonomy, without consulting the Transylvanians.<ref name="memorandum">{{cite web|url=http://www.taraiancului.ro/data/fotografii/mai2014/lucrari/04_Memorandumul.docx|title=''Memorandumul românilor transilvăneni – 1892'' [The Memorandum of the Transylvanian Romanians]|author=Florentina Teacă|publisher=Țara Iancului|language=Romanian|access-date=18 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="oszk">{{cite web|url=http://mek.oszk.hu/03400/03407/html/422.html|title='The 'Memorandum' Movement|publisher=[[National Széchényi Library]]|access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref>
 
The ''Memorandum'' itself was written by the leaders of the [[Romanian National Party|Romanian National Party of Transylvania and Banat]] (PNR) – among others, {{ill|Ioan Rațiu|ro}}, [[Gheorghe Pop de Băsești]], [[Eugen Brote]], [[Aurel Popovici]], and [[Vasile Lucaciu]]. It asked for [[political rights]] to be awarded to Romanians, as well as initiating a debate on the [[Kingdom of Hungary]]'s policies of intolerance towards Romanians.