The paper presents the fundamental and highest ideal of a fair society – the principle of the rule of law and the concept of constitutional rule. It depicts the concept of constitutional law as a ...system based on the ideas of the rule of law and constitutionalism, defining it as a law-abiding system. The paper attempts to separate the formal from the substantive rule of law and therein the rule of law is regarded as the fundamental value in the legal systems of international organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union and the Council of Europe. The conclusion shows the viewpoints of the Croatian Constitutional Court on the principle of the rule of law in concrete judgements.
The paper presents the fundamental and highest ideal of a fair society - the principle of the rule of law and the concept of constitutional rule. It depicts the concept of constitutional law as a ...system based on the ideas of the rule of law and constitutionalism, defining it as a law-abiding system. The paper attempts to separate the formal from the substantive rule of law and therein the rule of law is regarded as the fundamental value in the legal systems of international organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union and the Council of Europe. The conclusion shows the viewpoints of the Croatian Constitutional Court on the principle of the rule of law in concrete judgements.
We are witnesses and participants of Copernican changes in the world which result in major crises/challenges (economic, political, social, climate, demographic, migratory, MORAL) that significantly ...change "normal" circumstances. The law, as a large regulatory system, must find answers to these challenges. Primarily, these circumstances relate to (i) the pandemic - Corona 19, which requires ensuring economic development with a significant encroachment on human freedoms and rights; (ii) globalization, which fundamentally changes the concept of liberal capitalism as the most efficient system of production of goods and services and democracy as a desirable form of government; (iii) automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, and big data are changing the ways we work, live, communicate, and learn in a Copernican manner. The law should serve to shape the relationship between people in order to realize a life of love and freedom. This is done to the greatest extent through the constitutional engineering of selected institutions. The legal system focuses on institutions that have a raison d'etre in their mission, which is read as "ratio legis", as a desirable normative and real action in the range of causal and teleological aspect. Crisis situations narrow social cohesion and weaken trust in institutions. It is imperative to seek constitutional engineering that finds a way out in autopoietic institutions in allopoietic environment. We believe that the most current definition of law is that = law is the negation of the negation of morality. It follows that morality is the most important category of social development. Legitimacy, and then legality, relies on morality. In other words, the rules of conduct must be highly correlated with morality - legitimacy - legality. What is legal follows the rules, what is lawful follows the moral substance and ethical permissibility. Therefore, only a fair and intelligent mastery of a highly professional and ethical teleological interpretation of law is a conditio sine qua non for overcoming current anomalies of social development. The juridical code of legal and illegal is a transformation of moral, legitimate and legal into YES, and immoral, illegitimate and illegal into NO. The future of education aims to generate a program for global action and a discussion on learning and knowledgefor the future of humanity and the planet in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty and insecurity.
Rad prikazuje temeljni i najviši ideal pravednog društva – načelo vladavine prava, kao i koncept ustavne vladavine. Tako rad prikazuje koncept ustavne vladavine kao sustav utemeljen na idejama ...vladavine prava i konstitucionalizma, definirajući ga kao pravni sustav pokoravanja zakonima, a ne ljudima. U radu se nastoji razgraničiti formalna od materijalne vladavine prava te se vladavina prava razmatra kao temeljna vrijednost u pravnim sustavima međunarodnih organizacija Ujedinjenih naroda, Europske unije i Vijeća Europe. Zaključno se prikazuju stajališta Ustavnog suda RH o načelu vladavine prava u konkretnim sudskim odlukama.
We took part in the Jean Monnet project under the title «Teaching European Constitutionality» with the research «The Croatian Governmental System» elaborating on constitutional solutions in Croatia, ...one of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, in accordance with common established methodology of topic and subtopic selection enabling a qualitative comparative approach (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine). Although there are similarities in constitutional «destinies» of these countries there are a number of differentia specifica. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Od početaka društvenog organiziranja traga se za odgovorima kako dolaziti do naboljih mogućih rješenja društvenog organiziranja. Pojednostavljeno, kako pomiriti i uravnotežiti pojedinačne potrebe i ...interese ljudi i opće zajedničke interese zajednice. Odgovarujuća rješenja nalaze se u teoriji sustava, teoriji samoorganizacije i teoriji autopoiesis. Cijeli je taj konstitucionalni inženjering koncepcija traganja za odgovorima na pitanja: tko, što, kada, gdje, kako, s kim, s čim, pošto i dr. Taj je proces složen jer se sastoji od analiza, inicijativa, prijedloga, samog donošenja odluka, ali i primjenjivanja, nadgledanja te otvaranja novog ciklusa analiza, inicijativa itd. U teoriji to je prepoznatljivo kao društvena tehnologija donošenja odluka, kao dobra vladavina (good governance). Znači, nužno je promišljanje nacionalne države kao dijela političkog prostora unutar kojega se ostvaruje i jamči vladavina osobne slobode, građanske jednakosti i društvene pravednosti te se u tom smislu i oblikuje ustroj lokalne i regionalne samouprave. Upravo načelo supsidijarnosti, uz teleološku interpretaciju, omogućava, uz druga načela (proporcionalnosti, ekvilizacije i sl.), optimalno društveno organiziranje. Supsidijarnost je prava mjera ograničenja državne moći. Predstoji nam poraditi na razvoju demokracije, tolerancije, multikulturalnosti, prvenstveno na lokalnoj razini, kao korektiv centralizmu, isključivosti, samodovoljnosti i sl. Drugim riječima, procesima globalizacije valja suprotstaviti procese lokalizacije. Koliko su institucije životne, koliko odgovaraju poželjnošću i svojim karakteristikama, prvenstveno učinkovitosti i demokratičnosti, toliko im je suđeno da žive i djeluju. Najvažnije je da je danas sve manje rigidnosti, a sve više elastičnosti u autopoietskom poimanju. Drugim riječima, to znači da je svaki entitet dio i cjelina koji je jedinstven, kognitivno otvoren i normativno zatvoren. Autopoietična vizija najbolja je manifestacija kreativne imaginacije i primarni motivator ljudskih postupaka. Ona se sastoji u sposobnosti da se vidi i s druge strane sadašnje stvarnosti, ona je temeljna sila finaliteta. Nužna je i autopoietična misija, s autopoietičnom tehnologijom odlučivanja. Što prije postanemo svjesni da su motivacija, znanje, timski rad, tehnologija i financije najvažniji čimbenici (ne)uspjeha, prije će se pokrenuti kvalitetan razvitak svih i svakog. Važno je otvarati i jamčiti (pod)jednake šanse za svakog pojedinca i za sve krajeve.
O ustavnoj demokraciji Lauc, Zvonimir
Politička misao,
1998, Letnik:
XXXV, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Democracy and constitutional state should understandably be reviewed in the context of a society’s progression in curbing the state. In any community the central issue is the relationship between the ...people as individuals and as members of a collective, since it is desirable for a collective to be a synergic sum of individuals. Thus it is prudent to search for a corellation between democracy and constitutional state. Democracy is an emanation of freedom, constitutions always a limitation. A state hems in a civil society; within it there is a network of the processes of structuring government from “above”, which is of particular interest in transitional countries that gave up on the ideologised inaugural effect in designing government and adopted “constitutional engineering”: power-sharing, popular sovereignty, representative parliamentarism, promotion of freedoms and basic rights of individuals and citizens. In this, it is imperative to make note of the necessity of structuring societies from “below” by means of the principle of local self-rule.
On Constitutional Democracy Lauc, Zvonimir
Politička misao,
01/1998, Letnik:
35, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Democracy & constitutional state should understandably be reviewed in the context of a society's progression in curbing the state. In any community the central issue is the relationship between the ...people as individuals & as members of a collective, since it is desirable for a collective to be a synergic sum of individuals. Thus it is prudent to search for a correlation between democracy & constitutional state. Democracy is an emanation of freedom, constitutions always a limitation. A state hems in a civil society; within it there is a network of the processes of structuring government from "above," which is of particular interest in transitional countries that gave up on the ideologized inaugural effect in designing government & adopted "constitutional engineering": power-sharing, popular sovereignty, representative parliamentarism, promotion of freedoms, & basic rights of individuals & citizens. In this, it is imperative to make note of the necessity of structuring societies from "below" by means of the principle of local self-rule. Adapted from the source document.
Zastupljenost pripadnika manjina u parlamentima Europe je izuzetak, a ista se učestalije javlja u predstavničkim tijelima lokalne i regionalne samouprave.
