Porozumět ústavní demokracii : K (teoretickým) základům konstitucionalismu a lidských práv
| Title in English | Understanding Constitutional Democracy : Theoretical Foundations of Constitutionalism and Human Rights |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | In 1989, the aspiration for freedom and democracy animated our political transformation. In the subsequent years, a range of democratic and constitutional institutions and principles were adopted from our Western neighbors and gradually incorporated into our legal order. Yet these principles and institutions were, on many occasions, received without substantive public deliberation, and their significance was not always fully comprehended. This volume returns to the foundational premises of constitutional democracy and seeks to elucidate the import of its principal constitutional elements. Its author—a political theorist with a decade of practical experience at the Constitutional Court—poses a series of fundamental questions: Why is contemporary democracy so frequently characterized as constitutional or liberal? What are the inherent limits of this political regime? What is the precise meaning of the term constitutionalism? In what ways does constitutional adjudication reshape the practice of democratic governance? Which ideas and values undergird the principle of the separation of powers? How did the concept of human rights originate, and what is their essential significance? And why has human dignity come to occupy a central place among the values of modern constitutionalism? |
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