Autonomy as constitutional essentials - the Kantian interpretation and Polish Constitutional Tribunal
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constitutional essentials, autonomy, Constitutional Tribunal, Rawls, KantAbstract
The thesis of the article is the claim that the democratic constitution should contain elements that are relatively constant, necessary to preserve its identity. As an example of such an element, I point to the principle of autonomy contained implicitly in Article 30 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, which I interpret from the perspective of Kant's theory. In this approach, the principle of autonomy is a kind of "fundamental constitutional essentials", and thus defines the importance of two types of "constitutional essentials": (a) the political system and the legislative process, and (b) the constitutional system of rights. Kant's interpretation of this principle emphasizes its importance not only in the shade to the content of sub-constitutional legal norms (prohibition of instrumentalization), but also the form of their establishment (duty of justification). Violation of constitutional legislative procedures would also be violation the principle of political autonomy of citizens.
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