THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Author(s): Arsen Bačić
Subject(s): History, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: rule of law; constitutionalism; separation of powers; semi-presidential system; constitutional reform; executive–legislative relations; Croatian Constitution
Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, the general Croatian public but also a large number of its practising lawyers, understand the rule of law as a fundamental concept of constitutional democracy, mostly in its “narrower technical meaning” i.e. in the simplified “continental” version of the formalistic Rechtsstaat Certainly reasons for this can be found in traditional views of the nature of the authority of power and its manifestations as well as in the one-sided and narrow legal- political education to date. However, attempts to interpret this and some other key values of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia in another, far more complex way are more and more frequent.

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