Popis stanovništva: politika umjesto prava!?
The Census: Politics Instead of Law?!

Summary/Abstract: The forthcoming census is the legal and economic high-priority issue, although being indisputably of political nature. However, in Bosnia and Herzegovina it has become a priority, or if you will, the only political issue!? Therefore, clarification of some basic legal concepts is necessary. By utilizing accurate and clear terminology, with less difficulty we will obtain the accurate and clear statistical picture, which is the goal of the census. This little elementary reader of the nation, people as the ethnos and people as the demos, (national) state, citizens, civil society and civil government and sovereignty, has been provoked by many discussions in print, even more in the electronic media, regarding the next census in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is strange that sometimes certain participants do not have even basic knowledge about the aforementioned concepts in relation to the upcoming census. It only takes to cast a look upon the most basic textbook on Introduction to the Law, some legal or sociological lexicon (not to mention encyclopedia), and one will get the clear picture. Is not the census form, with its formulation of questions no. 24, 25 and 26, a nail in the future civil and democratic Bosnia and Herzegovina‟s coffin?

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