Suverenitet demokratske parlamentarne republike
The Sovereignty of a Democratic Parliamentary Republic

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the sovereignty of a democratic parliamentary republic in the perspective of the creating and passing of the constitution of the Republic of Croatia. Sovereignty as the key concept of the constitution entails decisive questions concerning the relationship between factual power and legally supreme power. Distinguishing real decision-making power from state government based on law and legitimacy entails a distinction between the concept of the state and that of sovereignty. The author bases the discussion of sovereignty as controlling power, as distinct from the sovereignty of law, on the theory of Carl Schmitt and his liberal interpreters. Doing so he concentrates in particular upon the question of parliamentary majority and the consequences of such a decision-making principle in the community. This question belongs to the profoundest European democratic political tradition.

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