The Compatibility of of the Liberal and the Democratic Principles with Parliamentarism

Autor analizira liberalno i demokratsko načelo konstitucije vlasti, te njihovo funkcioniranje u okviru parlamenta. Liberalni princip, prema mišljenju autora, bio je oduvijek vezan uz parlamentarizam. Naprotiv, demokratski princip, osobito izražen kao demokratski despotizam, žestoki je protivnik parlamentarizma. Autor odbacuje Schmittovo shvaćanje parlamentarizma i s Troeltschom ukazuje na prirodno pravo kao duhovni temelj parlamentarizma. Na kraju autor pokazuje na nepostojanje liberalnog načela u poslijeratnom razvitku Jugoslavije, kao i na mukotrpan proces ozbiljenja ovog načela u razvitku sadašnje Hrvatske.Thee author analyses the liberal and the democratic pnncrples of government constitution and their functioning within the parliamentary framework. According to the author, the liberal principle has always been bound to parliamentarism. The democratic principle, however, particularly in the form of democratic despotism, is a fervenl opponent of parliamentarism. The author rejects Schmitt\u27s concept of parliamentarism and like Troeltsch emphasizes thc natural right as the spiritual foundation of parliamentarism. Finally, the author points to the absence of the liberal principle in the post-war development of Yugoslavia and talks about the painstaking process of coming to terms with the principle in presentday Croatia