She forced her hurt deep inside and drew a strengthening breath.
The Golden Bull has been described as consecrating the humiliation of the crown by the great barons, whose usurpations it legalized; the more usually accepted view, however, is that it was directed not so much to weakening as to strengthening the crown by uniting its interests with those of the mass of the Magyar nobility, equally threatened by the encroachments of the great barons.
This line is of great strategical importance, as strengthening the Turkish hold on the Red Sea provinces.
Reciprocally this continued service, whilst strengthening our true unity, renders us at once both happier and better."
The elections resulted in a majority favourable to the new ministry, and a series of laws were passed of a reactionary tendency with a view to strengthening the government.
