State and Constitution
State and Constitution
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Lecturers
Lectures
Seminar
Course Description
The Course has a system approach to the history of the relationship of the state and constitution, as well as the transformation processes of Europeanization and globalization. Course encompasses the problems of definition and historical development of the state, the modern state as the political form, comparison of modern state with post-modern political forms, various ways of legitimatng etc.
Study Programmes
undergraduate
Military Leadership and Management - study
(1. semester)
Learning Outcomes
- Introduction to the complex relationship between the state and the constitution
- Critical observation of the specificities of the modern state
- Introduction to the political history of the state and constitution
- Introduction to the main constitutional categories
- Introduction to the figuration of the constitutionality of the Republic of Croatia
- Critical observation of the specificities of the europeanization and globalization processes
Forms of Teaching
Lectures
Seminars and workshops
Seminars and workshops
Week by Week Schedule
- Lectures: Introduction: description of the course Exercises: Introduction
- Lectures: Authority and state: historical metamorphosis Exercises: Authority and state: historical metamorphosis
- Lectures: Premodern political forms and their justification Exercises: Premodern political forms and their justification
- Lectures: Political communities from ancient times to the modern state, I Exercises: Political communities from ancient times to the modern state, I
- Lectures: Political communities from ancient times to the modern state, II Exercises: Political communities from ancient times to the modern state, II
- Lectures: Affirmation of the state: Religious wars 1517-1748 and absolutism Exercises: Affirmation of the state: Religious wars 1517-1748 and absolutism
- Lectures: Formation of the modern state - processes of modernization Exercises: Formation of the modern state - processes of modernization
- Lectures: Formation of the modern state - liberal and totalitarian state Exercises: Formation of the modern state - liberal and totalitarian state
- Lectures: Key theories of the state Exercises: Key theories of the state
- Lectures: Constitutional institutions Exercises: Constitutional institutions
- Lectures: Principle of secularism in the historical perspective Exercises: Principle of secularism in the historical perspective
- Lectures: Constitution and state in the processes of europeanization Exercises: Constitution and state in the processes of europeanization
- Lectures: Historical development of the figuration of constitutionality of the Republic of Croatia Exercises: Historical development of the figuration of constitutionality of the Republic of Croatia
- Lectures: Processes of the globalization and contemporary state Exercises: Processes of the globalization and contemporary state
- Lectures: Conclusions Exercises: Conclusions
Literature
(.), Jean PICQ, Povijest države u Europi, Biblioteka Politička misao, 2013.,
Šefko Kurtović (1990.), Opća historija države i prava I i II,
Josef Isensee, Kiril Miladinov, Zvonko Posavec (2004.), Država, ustav, demokracija, Politička kultura
Peter Häberle (2002.), Ustavna država, Politička kultura
(.), Smiljko SOKOL i Branko SMERDEL, Ustavno pravo. Zagreb: Informator, 2009., str. 1-146.,
For students
General
ID 282167
Winter semester
4.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
30 Seminar