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Како неправо постаје право
How Wrong Becomes Right

Author(s): Milan Blagojević
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Government/Political systems, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Politics, Philosophy of Law, Sociology of Law
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci
Keywords: rule of law; constitutionality of the peoples; national minorities; interpretation of constitution; implementation of constitution; political participation; political representation of minorities;

Summary/Abstract: There are a lot of things in constitutional legal order in Bosnia and Herzegovina that attracts our attention. It has already been pointed out by many authors and many times that both letter of B&H Constitution and its implementation (what in american constitutional and legal literature is called constitution in action) have a numerous strangeness. In the countries that have constitution in formal sense it can be understood and tolerated in some extent the need of political actors to have a letter of domestic constitution interpreted in a way that correspond to their political interests in their everyday mutual political campaign. Such understanding and toleration are acceptable since, in final, their opinion is not legally binding. But, when the court does so, the court which have a highest place ih judiciary, such appearance is a true dangerous and every well meaning man should be worried for that. Exactly such question is a topic of this paper. It is so due to the fact that a way on which Constitutional Court of B&H decided in a case from 2000 (on constituionality of the peoples in B&H) unmasked readiness of some judges of that Court to put their functions in service of a realization of certain political interests. There is no ground neither in the letter nor in the spirit of B&H Constitution for the decision they took in that case, and today it (this case) is few bespoken here in B&H. Decision of European Court on Human Rights in case Sejdic-Finci (from 2009) is also subject of this paper. By this decision the European Court illegally put itself into position of institution which wants to make a constitutional revision in an unconstitutional way, just as it was done before by the Constitutional Court of B&H in the aforesaid case from 2000.

  • Issue Year: 2/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 135-161
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Serbian