Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2021.58.141.729
Announcement of modern guarantees of rights in the Korcula Statute
Petar Bačić
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper points out the relevant provisions and the importance of the Magna Carta as a forerunner of modern declarations of rights, and briefly looks at modern understandings and established classifications of human rights, their protection systems, and looks in more details at comparable provisions of the Statute of the Town and Island of Korčula as undoubtedly representative examples of modern guarantees of rights and freedoms. At the same time, author find some provisions in the Korčula Statute, such as, for example, the restriction of the slave trade, which Magna Carta does not know. The author starts from the fact that, when drawing parallels between medieval and modern documents and assessing the meaning of certain provisions and institutes, one should necessarily be careful, because the issue of human rights protection is a particularly slippery area. However, the author's conclusion is that for both the Korčula Statute and the Magna Carta it is worth pointing out that their importance is not only in what is written in them and what they presented to their writers and their contemporaries; moreover, even more important is their heritage in terms of the meanings ascribed to their content by later generations. Namely, myths are sometimes indeed more important than reality.
Keywords
Magna Carta; Korčula Statute; modern declarations of rights; human rights
Hrčak ID:
262164
URI
Publication date:
7.9.2021.
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