Reshaping the Constitution as seen from the perspective of the Senate
Vol.8,No.2(2000)
Abstract
Pages:
149–158
The law-making is a process of creation the abstract and general rules of human behaviour with sanctions of the state power. The application of law, its part is also legal interpretation giving the rules a sense, transforms the abstract and general rules to the concret and individual form. This is a cause of dinstinction between "law in book" and "law in action". The legal theory speaks about the forming of the law (Fortsetzung des Rechts). To form the law is usually a task of the courts, but we can speak also about the forming of the law by the working other institutions; in this article we write about the czech Senat as regards as the Constitution.
The Senat interpreted in many interesting cases the czech Constitution and gives by this way its own part to the tension between law in book and law in action, or between the Constitution on the paper and in reality. The Constitution transforms itself.
There were cases important for the consideration of the relations between specific and common legislative process (constitutional and "organical" acts on the one and the common acts on the other side), parliamentary process of confirmation of international treaties, legislative process on the end of the term of the House of Deputies, flowing of the time in the Constitution, the relation of the Senat to the Government etc.
The Senat interpreted in many interesting cases the czech Constitution and gives by this way its own part to the tension between law in book and law in action, or between the Constitution on the paper and in reality. The Constitution transforms itself.
There were cases important for the consideration of the relations between specific and common legislative process (constitutional and "organical" acts on the one and the common acts on the other side), parliamentary process of confirmation of international treaties, legislative process on the end of the term of the House of Deputies, flowing of the time in the Constitution, the relation of the Senat to the Government etc.
149–158
Author biography
Jan Kysela
Department of Politology and Sociology, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague; Senate Chancellery of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
tajemník Komise Senátu pro Ústavu ČR
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