Condorcetova misao o temeljima i organizaciji vlasti
Condorcet's Thinking About the Foundations and the Organization of Power

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses Condorcet’s political thinking about the foundations and the organization of power on the basis of his speeches and his writings between 1789 and 1791, especially the »Draft of the Declaration on natural, civil, and political rights of men« and »The Design of a French Constitution«, which Condorcet wrote and, together with a long report, submitted in the name of the Constitutional Committee, at the session of the Convent of February 15, 1973. First, Condorcet's notion of the delegation principle is examined. With the help of this idea he tries to form constitutional and political Institutions in which the social essence of direct democracy could be expressed, even in decision making on those levels of society where this process has to be effected legally and technically in an indirect way because of the number of individuals involved and the complexity of the decisions. Because of these ideas and in particular because of his attempts for the delegation principle to acquire an institutional form and to be implemented constitutionally and politically, Condorcet is, on the institutional level at least, one of the forerunners of the doctrine of decision-making through delegates in the Yugoslav sense of that concept. The author also examines more fully Condorcet’s model of the organization of state power, especially the relationship of legislative and executive power. He succeeded in shaping a constitutionally and politically possible system of power organization based on the submission of the executive power to the legislative one in terms of organization and function. This makes him a forerunner of all modern conceptions of the principle of unity of power and the parliamentary system.

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