RULE OF LAW, LEGAL CERTAINTY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: FREEDOM OF ENTERPRISE IN THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION
RULE OF LAW, LEGAL CERTAINTY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: FREEDOM OF ENTERPRISE IN THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION

Summary/Abstract: Legal certainty is one of the supreme values of the Rule of Law. Citizens have the right to know with certainty what their rights and duties are, the consequences that will be attributed to their actions or omissions, the predictability of the legal effects of his acts. The principle of legality, the masterpiece of the Rule of Law, has, above all, this purpose. Confidence in the Law is not only a requirement of freedom, but also of the efficiency and prosperity of a society. Not just in the long term, but even in the short term, the prosperity of nations is based, more than on their natural wealth, on their civility, on the respect for the rules for coexistence, the market, contracts, property and, above all, of the Law, which is what keeps all of the previous, standing. Respect for the established law, compliance with the rules, the autonomy of the institutions, the separation of powers and their functions, the intervention and control of public spending, etc., is the secret of good government.

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