CONSTITUTIONALISM, LEGITIMACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
CONSTITUTIONALISM, LEGITIMACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Author(s): Arsen Bačić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Constitutional Law, Civil Society, Governance, Government/Political systems
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: Croatia Rediviva; constitutionalization; constitutionalism; constitution; minority rights; identification; democracy; civil society
Summary/Abstract: In the paper, the author points out the strong relationship between cons­titutionalism and the rule of law, demonstrating that the legitimacy of the constitutional state weakens if there is a passively compromising and cunctative attitude in the society towards the implementation of constitutional values, and a permanent distrust regarding the constitutional-patriotic orientation of the civil society institutions. The author believes that such a slate of affairs greatly affects the credibility and legitimacy of every administrator who tails to see that Croatia will truly become a part of the Western civilization only if there is a coherent and unquestionable affirmation of the idea and practice of democratic constituti­ onalism and the corresponding type ot' constitutional state as a credible and powerful “cultural achievement“.

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