O prawnym makiawelizmie polityków
On the Legal Machiavellianism of Politicians

Summary/Abstract: More and more extensive, and at the same time more “dense” is becoming the sphere of phe- nomena related to the infringement of the law in political activities, to ignoring legal limitations and prohibitions, abusing the law in political and ideological competition and in governing processes. Such drastic negations of the rule of law are usually accompanied by demonstrative lawlessness, “breaking the law with politics”, more or less cunning, sophisticated, or pathetically non-sophisticated misinterpretation or (when it is convenient) overinterpretation of legal norms. The article presents an outline of a model of some new quality, which deserves a special label – the legal Machiavellianism. It is just a draft of a conceptu- al-interpretative scheme, however deserving – as the author claims – a critical verification and possible clarifications.

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