Stanje i perspektive opće normativne akomodacije kolektivnoga načela
State and Perspectives of the General Normative Accommodation of the Collective Principle

Summary/Abstract: The paper studies the historical dominance of the mononational conception manifested in the form of a nation-state based on two key ideas: 'sovereignty' – followed by the tendency of absolutization and centralization, and 'individuality' – as a basis of equality of all members of a nation within a mononational civil order. On the other side of the spectrum are systems and models of multinational states and multinational federalism, the relevance of which has been increasing over the past few decades, and which, in addition to the 'individual' principle, also strongly promote the 'collective' principle. Such development is also supported by multinational states that successfully use federalism as a tool to manage differences. The assumption of a wider affirmation of this model is a departure from the synthetic unity of the syntagm nation-state so that 'state' could be viewed as a separate analytical category within which it is possible to accommodate the collective principle.

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