Constitutional Rights and Proportionality

There are two basic views concerning the relationship between constitutional rights and proportionality analysis. The first maintains that there exists a necessary connection between constitutional rights and proportionality, the second argues that the question of whether constitutional rights and proportionality are connected depends on what the framers of the constitution have actually decided, that is, on positive law. The first thesis may be termed ‘necessity thesis’, the second ‘contingency thesis’. According to the necessity thesis, the legitimacy of proportionality analysis is a question of the nature of constitutional rights, according to the contingency thesis, it is a question of interpretation. The article defends the necessity thesis. | A previous version of this article was published in Chinese Yearbook of Constitutional Law, Vol. 2010, 221–235.Ustavne pravice in sorazmernost. Med pravniki obstajata dva temeljna pogleda na odnos med ustavnimi pravicami in presojo sorazmernosti. Po prvem so ustavne pravice nujno zvezane s presojo sorazmernosti, medtem ko je po drugem vprašanje povezanosti ustavnih pravic in sorazmernosti odvisno od dejanske odločitve ustavodajalca, tj. od pozitivnega prava. Prvi pogled lahko poimenujemo tudi kot »trditev o nujni zvezanosti«, drugega pa kot »trditev o nenujni zvezanosti«. Skladno s trditvijo o nujni zvezanosti je legitimnost presoje sorazmernostni vprašanje narave ustavnih pravic, medtem ko je skladno s trditvijo o nenujni zvezanosti to vprašanje razlage. V tem prispevku avtor zagovarja trditev o nujni zvezanosti ustavnih pravic in sorazmernosti. | Starejša različica te razprave je objavljena v Chinese Yearbook of Constitutional Law, Vol. 2010, 221–235