The Evolution and Gestalt of the Czech Constitution

C 2023

The Evolution and Gestalt of the Czech Constitution

KOSAŘ, David a Ladislav VYHNÁNEK

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Evolution and Gestalt of the Czech Constitution

Autoři

KOSAŘ, David (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Ladislav VYHNÁNEK (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

London, Constitutional Foundations, od s. 55-108, 54 s. The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law. Volume II. 2023

Nakladatel

Oxford University Press

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50501 Law

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

Katalog MU

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14220/23:00130498

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

ISBN

978-0-19-872642-5

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198726425.003.0002

Klíčová slova česky

ústava; ústavní principy; dělba moci; lidská práva; právní stát;

Klíčová slova anglicky

constitution; constitutional principles; separation of powers; human rights; rule of law

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 25. 3. 2024 14:06, Mgr. Petra Georgala

Anotace

V originále

This chapter provides a condensed look at the Czech constitutional Gestalt. It argues that in order to understand it, it is necessary to go beyond the text of the 1993 Czech Constitution and view it also as a historical, political and social phenomenon. More specifically, it shows that the Czech constitutional system has been built on liberal democratic values and on the legacy of the first Czechoslovak Republic. The key institutions and the general constitutional design have followed well tested constitutional patterns and the early experience with the functioning of the new constitutional system lent themselves to optimistic interpretations. At the same time, this chapter identifies some dangerous subtones of the Czech constitutional development that are often neglected by constitutional law scholars. While the system still seems to be in a relatively good shape, its future is hard to predict and even the evaluation of constitutional-political and social developments within the last decade is an uneasy task. Even though the Czech constitutional landscape has not been subject to changes and challenges of the same magnitude as some of its Visegrad counterparts (Slovakia in the 1990s and Hungary and Poland in the 2010s), there are clear signs of its fragility and susceptibility to democratic backsliding. The reasons of the fragility do not lie in the structure of the constitutional system itself, but rather in the social underpinning of the key constitutional values. This makes Czechia a particularly interesting case as it is arguably an outlier among the Visegrad countries, but we do not know for how long.

Citovat

KOSAŘ, David a Ladislav VYHNÁNEK. The Evolution and Gestalt of the Czech Constitution. In Armin von Bogdandy, Peter M. Huber, and Sabrina Ragone. Constitutional Foundations. London: Oxford University Press, 2023, s. 55-108. The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law. Volume II. ISBN 978-0-19-872642-5. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198726425.003.0002.

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KOSAŘ, David a Ladislav VYHNÁNEK. The Evolution and Gestalt of the Czech Constitution. In Armin von Bogdandy, Peter M. Huber, and Sabrina Ragone. \textit{Constitutional Foundations}. London: Oxford University Press, 2023, s.~55-108. The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law. Volume II. ISBN~978-0-19-872642-5. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198726425.003.0002.

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