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The theory of the constitution in the material sense has occupied the attention of theorists of many disciplines for almost two hundred years. Because of its polemical nature and the difficulty of determining what a material constitution in general is, this theory was also considered somewhat controversial, even undesirable for constitutional theory. This essay, following the trend of the European constitutional theory over the past 10 years, which has again become more active in studying this "dangerous" topic, seeks to explore whether the concept of material constitution has any epistemological value for theoretical and practical considerations of constitutional law. Guided by the theoretical principles of Marco Goldoni, as one of the main leaders of the new wave of interest in the material constitution, this essay applies the "material study of constitutionalism" to the Republic of Croatia. In an effort to be a corrective to formal constitutionalism, the inclusion of the material level in constitutional considerations seeks to contribute to further deepening and better explaining of the constitutional reality. The first part, as a theoretical framework, is focused on the material constitution as understood by Marco Goldoni. The second chapter deals with the material inquiry of selected cases from the Republic of Croatia. There are strong indications that the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia in its decisions normatively used some aspects of the material constitution. In the conclusion, the possibilities and limits of both normative and descriptive use of the constitution in the material sense will be considered [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper relates to the concept of citizen in the Croatian and Yugoslav constitutional orders from 1944 until 1990. The paper deals with the analysis of the most important constitutional acts that affected citizens starting from those enacted by the Yugoslav and Croatian authorities at the end of the Second World War and its aftermath. In addition, the paper conducts an analysis into the federal and republican constitutional law of 1953, federal and republican constitution of 1963 and federal and republican constitution of 1974. The paper sets forth that the authorities shaped the concept of citizen in line with the socialistic principles while at the same time gradually abandoning individual approach towards citizens. In addition, it is pointed out that socialistic constitutions emphasized class terminology in their constitu)tional texts and interests of the community over the individual interests. Furthermore, the paper indicates that in the constitutional acts, specifically those enacted in the aftermath of the Second World War and in the acts of 1974, the authority emphasized ethnic equality as an important feature of the constitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although the Constitution of the Republic of Srpska was created in extremely complex circumstances, exposed to multiple, often violent changes, the underlined constitutional concept of the organization of power and the position of the President of the Republic remained unchanged. Thanks to that fact, the Constitution of the Republic of Srpska confirmed its vitality, and enabled the stable functioning of the state government. Although the semi-presidential system (of power) implies certain elements common to all variants, there are numerous specifics of its different manifestations. In this regard, one can observe the position of the President of the Republic of Srpska, who, in addition to immediate legitimacy, has vast and independent powers, which make him the true head of the executive branch. In light of these characteristics of the position of the President of the Republic, one can speak of a stronger semi-presidential form of government. Having in mind determinism of existing solutions, the similarity with comparative models, and bearing in mind certain specifics, the author is of the opinion that established solution should not be changed.

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Pardon is an institute that maintains certain archaic characteristics in its modern form and possesses, as a consequence of its long evolution, a number of specifics that are found in legal systems around the world, both in the terms of its legal nature as well as in mechanisms of its realization. In this paper, several legal systems of the Western legal tradition, which could be considered as pardon models, are analyzed. Although almost every country today has some particular characteristics on its own in the domain of this institute, the models of Serbia, Germany, USA, Commonwealth realms (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), Switzerland and Russia all express the number of more distinctive differences by various criteria. Their use as a basis for further comparison could also help explaining the regulations of the domain of the pardon institute in other countries of Western legal traditions and broader. Also, by looking at the set of specifics of the aforementioned models, a clearer picture of the institute of pardon in general is obtained. The focus of the analysis in this work was primarily placed on the legal key points of pardon, viewed mostly from the constitutional law perspective, and to a certain extent from the criminal law point of view.

Pre-bankruptcy procedure regulated by the Finance and Pre-bankruptcy Act (NN 108/12,144/12, 81/13, 112/13) is reminiscent of the recent out of bankruptcy forced settlement before the court. The intention of this Act was to regulate legal norms by which fast and effective reparation of insolvency, illiquidity and over indebted economic subjects could be made possible. In this law there are no indications that such a procedure would be of a coercive nature, but during the course of its implementation in practice it was noted that that certain of its provisions pointed to such a possibility. Due to this there came about the submission of an application to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia for constitutional assessment of these provisions. Thereby, certain participants in the pre-bankruptcy procedure were placed in a more favourable position and in this way allowed for misuse revealed in the submitted application. The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia in relation to the submitted application reached a decision numbered : U-I-4175/2013-PP on 27 July 2013 by which, in the preliminary procedure, allowing for partially submitted debtors’ complaints in the pre-bankruptcy procedure, reshaped the submitted application into a suggestion for assessment of consent of the stated Act, that is certain of its provisions with the constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, quashed a decision by which ceasing the procedure would have been determined and its unpostponable continuation would have been ordered. Since the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia emphasised that the judgement reached was of a precedential nature., the author analysed the Constitutional Court’s adopted stance which were the foundation of the reached decisions and the author has come to the conclusion that, given the importance of this problem area, a different judgement could have and should have been reached and the author considers that such a decision in the future should not be of a precedential nature.

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This article analyses the 21 February 2017 decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia on the accordance of the so-called »Abortion Law« from 1978 with the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia. The analysis proceeds from a specific perspective of legal philosophy, but also includes broader philosophical issues of establishing a conception of justice for the interrelation between law and morality. The author extrapolates certain guiding principles from the rationale of the Court's decision in order to synthesize the main features of the argumentative frame of justice adopted by the Court. These guiding principles are then identified as being very similar to the principles of the political conception of justice, famously established by John Rawls in his political philosophy. The author then critically assesses certain anthropological implications and the background view of the human person underlying the Rawlsian argumentative frame of justice, which focuses on the central concept of unencumbered freedom of a wholly autonomous »self«. After indicating numerous deficiencies of an approach to the legal regulation of abortion which is grounded in a »negative« anthropology, the author indicates certain characteristics of an alternative conception of justice which would adopt the juridical dimension of the »positive« determinations of anthropology of the human person as the point of departure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The processes of modernisation, existence and diversification of social activity at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century and the increasingly evident connection among sport, political, economic, cultural and social realities are also reflected in the constitutional law of a modern state. In an attempt to answer the question which was raised when constitutional law appeared in unexpected places (stadiums) and because of which sport and sport rights should be taken seriously, the authors outline some relevant connections and problems in the relationship among the state, politics and sport, constitutional law and the subjective law of individuals This is the constitutionalisation of sport topics in the area of European and national law.

Within the circumstances of the historically determined political legal discussion which during the XIXth and XXth century followed the transition of a liberal constitutionally democratic state of classical existence into the form of a social state (welfare state, l’etat providence), one infl uential wave of legal writers held that administrative law, from the perspective of public law, was completely different from private law, given that it regulates relations between states and private citizens. Because in the common law tradition there existed only one law, in English legal thought from the end of the XIX century, especially within the framework of constitutional law, the possibility of the development of a special administrative law was expressly rejected. A.V. Dicey, writer of the classical work The Law of the Constitution (1885) outlined thereby the most authoritative standpoint which very much infl uenced the direction of English legal theory and practice, not only at the time of its inception, but also later. The crux of Dicey’s argument emphasises the non-existence of any kind of need for special administrative law. However, that viewpoint was later rejected with the development of the theory and practice of a state of prosperity which, within its own framework, actually encouraged the development of administrative law. In this paper, the author enlightens Dicey’s controversy and points out the relevance of certain arguments from that important historical episode of traditional but constructive confrontation of the English and the French ‘view of the world’ of law and politics.

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Rights and freedoms of national minorities and their members as a constituent part of human rights and fundamental freedoms are the most challenging part of social relations for legal regulation, theoretical concept and systematisation as well as for their protection and enforcement in a community and state. In spite of their importance, there are at all levels quite a few disagreements or in other words, a significant number of issues that are being discussed aiming at unique, general solutions both at theoretical and provisional (legislative) level. It should suffice to mention that there is no agreement on the definition of the notion of national minority or on the question whether rights and freedoms of national minorities belong to their member individuals or/and national minority as a collectivity. Nevertheless, they are objects of legal regulation of supranational and national laws because of their significance and the role in establishing stable and secure societies as a link among nations and states, their expansion and the dialogue, understanding, tolerance and constant improvement of instruments to solve all social (interstate) tensions, including open conflicts by means of democratic principles, applying the principles and values of justice, freedom and equality, along with respect and protection of their rights and fundamental freedoms as human rights and fundamental freedoms based on best practices of states, rule of law and the Constitution. Indeed, all this should be done within the framework of the national, within the norms of Constitutional law to regulate the constitutional framework if the constitutional order has not taken it over from the supranational law (as in Croatia), and their legal framework for elaborating the content of enforcement and protection of rights and freedom of national minorities and their members. The long year endeavour of the Republic of Croatia (since its independence) to regulate the issues of national minorities ended in the early 21st century (from 2000 until 2003) first of all based on its Constitution, then on the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The scope and content of legal regulation of rights and freedoms of national minorities and their members in the Republic of Croatia have been rated at the highest level in Europe, among many EU Member States i.e. in the world and have received the incentive and support for their enforcement and protection in real social life. Moreover, these issues once constituted the basis of tensions and excuses for the Serbian national minority in Croatia and as justification for Great-Serbian aspiration towards the Republic of Croatia even by means of military aggression. These issues motivate sensitive handling of all serious interventions in legal order and protection of rights and freedom of national minorities and their members and in particular of those affecting the changes in constitutional-legal approach to these issues and constitutionalisation of the state and community on one hand and established hierarchy of Croatian constitutional order on the other hand. The aims of the sixth “Proposal to Amend the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia” are the aforementioned issues. The Proposal does not only change the hierarchical structure of the Croatian constitutional order by changing constitutional nature of legislation (Constitution and the laws) by which rights and freedoms of national minorities and their members are regulated by raising them from the level of organic laws to the level of constitutional norms and constitutional acts, but (if adopted and passed) it creates constitutional basis on which civil principle is adopted as a constituent of the Croatian society changing the ethnical principle by establishing different relations between ethnical majority and ethnical minority on the principle of division “we and you” etc [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper addresses issues relating to the protection of disabled persons, a particularly vulnerable social category, with accent on the implementation of the National Disabled Persons Strategy in the Republic of Croatia in the period from 2007 to 2015. The author provides an abbreviated overview of different modalities for the protection of disabled persons by listing the guaranteed constitutional and legal rights of disabled persons exercised individually or through membership in the Croatian Union of Associations of Disabled Persons or in the Croatian Union of Associations of Labour Invalids through their various local associations on the territory of Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Constitution is a set of rules which governs a nation state. It is considered a government's antecedent because it gives legitimacy to the government and defines the powers under which a government may act. As such, the constitution sets constraints both to the powers which can be exercise and to manner in which they may be exercise. Hence, the constitution defines the legality of power and that is the reason why it can be defined as a legal and political act. Two fundamental concepts (meanings) of the constitution represented in the constitutional legal theory are formal and material notion of the constitution. Author have focused on elaborating and explaining the constitution as a fundamental and a supreme legal-political act in general and on the comparison of the formal and material concept of the constitution in particular. The extent of the correspondence between this two concepts and their relation with the notions of written/unwritten and rigid/flexible constitution is also analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article provides analysis on the important changes brought about by the Croatian Nationality Act. It determines whether the changes solve open issues on the Croatian nationality law. One changes tackled is concerning naturalisation, wherein the nation's nationalisation requirements for the country have been criticized.

Although the sickness can equally befall each person in hectic living conditions, yet when illness strikes President of the State or Prime minister, a different perception emerges in public. Image of strenght and the ability of state official is critical for existence of public confidence and stability of the political system. Elementary question that arises is, when for health reasons, desired public image is left out: whether to inform the public about his health, to which extent, to deny it, or even to cover it up. In this paper we examine the situation of the disease that involves high government official: President of the State, Prime minister, minister, member of the representative assembly, in one word politician, and its impact on his actions and decisions which may have or have consequences for the public interest and government policies that are being implemented. The paper deals with content and nature of the relationship between a physician and a medical team and high government official, the role of the physician in determining the need to carry out succession procedure of high government official because of a disease that prevents him to perform his powers and duties, informing the public about the health of the government official, when and should it be restricted, and the development of public culture in that field. The disease of the first Croatian president Franjo Tuđman was analyzed through the above-mentioned aspects, and author gives a review and assessment of its political and constitutional resolving with commentary of current constitutional regulation of this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The constitutions of most countries have an introductory part - the preamble, which leads the normative part of the constitution. Preambles often contain general rules and principles on which the state is founded, then the basic human rights and freedoms, social aims and national development, such as sovereignty, independence, integrity, democracy, rule of law, liberty, equality. Sometimes constitutions themselves resolve the question of the legal nature of the preamble, but if that is missing - form and content of the preamble determine its legal nature on which depends constitutional-legal binding force of the preamble. Preamble is an integral part of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and can have a normative character. According to the decision of the Constitutional Court number U 5/98, preamble can be seen as an act which through the entire Constitution includes normative principles and values. However, the impact of certain sentences of the preamble to the interpretation of the Constitution is not the same, because all the sentences don't have the same normative value. The fact that the text of the preamble is not only secondary method of interpretation, for the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is very significant [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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General Framework Agreement for Peace in BiH or BiH Constitution from 1995. resulted in radical constitutional changes in a way that it introduced two entirely new categories into BiH constitutional system: entities and constituent peoples. By their constitutional positioning, the core values, rights and interests of the state of BiH and its citizens were questioned. The points of views, that are denying BiH statehood and sovereignty of its citizens, appeared. Such attitudes are generally not based on science, or positive law, but they have a great impact in the creation of socio - political relations in BiH. Analysis of the BiH Constitution and decisions of the BiH Constitutional Court confirms the unbreakable connection of BiH statehood and sovereignty of its citizens. The quantity of entities' competence and rights of the constituent peoples do not give them the qualities possessed by BiH and its citizens related with statehood and sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new Law on Legal Proceedings of the Republic of Serbia was brought in 2011 and its regulations were put into effect on February 1st, 2012. Although it does not represent a result of a complete reform of civil procedure, this law brings a series of novelties. Solutions regarding certain process institutes have been significantly changed and supplemented, and totally new institutes have been introduced to the civil procedure. On the other hand, regulations regarding certain process institutions were eliminated from the law, while certain institutions which had been omitted by regulations of the previous laws were returned. In this paper the author points to the novelties brought by the law, especially emphasizing essential changes, as related to the previous process law, which used to regulate the institutes of the civil procedure [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]