Original scientific paper

Procedural or Atomic Sovereignty

Žarko Puhovski ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The problem with sovereignty is that it is marked by traditional paradoxes: namely, it represents a stance which presumes an institutional solution, and simultaneously empowers all institutions of a given community (and thus it is above them). Sovereignty has the form of a legal instance, but it is also the prerrquisite of an entire (positive) legal system of a community; it manifests itself always as a political problem, but nowhere is its solution purely political; and finally, sovereignty is considered a fundamental national categorical (constitutional) basis for existence of a nation, but simultaneously it is always considered, affirmed, and, to some degree, determined in the international context.

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Hrčak ID:

111140

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/111140

Publication date:

1.12.1993.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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