Sovereign Family
Sovereign Family

Summary/Abstract: The point of departure for the deliberations is the Letter to Families written by John Paul II presenting threats to understanding, existing, and functioning of the family in the contemporary world. The author of the study discusses the problem of sovereignty of the family. He depicts it from a wider point of view of its identity and subjectivity, indicating that these three elementary dimensions of family’s existence have impact on its inalienable, fundamental, and universal rights independent of any human authority. For this reason, he analyzes the concepts of identity, subjectivity, and sovereignty of the family, their relationships with each other, their basis which lies in marital covenant, as well as legal and political consequences for the existence of the family within a wider social community.

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