Professional paper

Four Aspects of the Explicated Constitution

Arian Rajh

Abstract

This study relates the aberrations of Sulek’s constitution from the ordinary legal discourse to the role the text had in constructing the notion of Croatian nationality. Due to the anticipated reception of the text and the incorporation of law into culture, the constitution is a product of several secondary modeling systems. As well as in the other Monarchy’s national cultures, the legal strengthening of the Croatian culture was an attempt to unite the communities in the area. This procedure is examined through several aspects of the text. As the form and content cannot be separated in the secondary modeling systems, the aspects of the constitution are interrelated. The transcultural aspect delineates the imagined founding of law in the “folk prudence”, which is rhetorically represented as independent of cultures which are to be replaced by the modern legal culture. The cultural aspect consists of meanings relevant for the constitution of national identity. Related to the language and the reception of the text are the narrative-historical and the indicative- normative aspects. The narrative-historical aspect consists of the narrative rules and rendering of the historical experience, and includes a narrator and potential or exemplary heroes. The goal of this part of the constitution was to bring the future legal culture closer to its recipients and to introduce the legal norms in an acceptable way. The final aspect is concerned with the norms and indicative descriptions.

Keywords

deconstruction of “prudence”; secondary modeling system; legal culture; notion of nation; reception of culture; Sulek’s constitution

Hrčak ID:

179058

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/179058

Publication date:

1.12.2003.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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