标题：A critical-legal overview of the concept of constitution as the highest legal- political act of the state in the light of constitutional-juridical doctrine
期刊名称：Pravni vjesnik - Quarterly Journal of Law and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0352-5317
出版年度：2013
卷号：29
期号：2
页码：51-65
语种：English
出版社：Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku
摘要：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.
关键词：constitution; formal concept of the constitution; material concept of the constitution; written and unwritten constitution; rigid and flexible constitution; contents relation between constitution in formal and material sense.
