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The Constitution of a Modern State

Author(s): Zvonko Posavec
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Political Sciences, Government/Political systems, Security and defense, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Constitution; Modern State;

Summary/Abstract: To secure peace through sovereignty, to secure liberty by limiting government, and to achieve social justice — these air three essential phases of a modem state and its constitutionality. The author analyzes the first two phases in the development of a modem state and draws certain parallels with respect to our own situation. The modern state in general comes into bang with the forming of modem sovereignty. The author quotes the draft for the changes in the constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and states his conviction that the weakness of its underlying idea resides in its assumption of strong political entities (peoples) sating up a loose mutual agreement. A modern state cannot be established on such vaguely binding decisions, especially when some extraordinary circumstance arises. The only possibility of achieving political unity on the level of Yugoslavia as a whole is that a democratic constitutional state should be formed, this however presupposes an indispensable degree of homogeneity which is a condition that democratic institutions might develop.

  • Issue Year: XXVII/1990
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 138-144
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Croatian