Publikacja:

The Argument from Legal Fetishism in Constitutional Discourse

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2019
Artykuł
 
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dc.abstract.plThe subject of the analysis presented in the text is an argument that tends to (and used to) be raised in the critical discourse on constitutionalism – the allegation of the so-called constitutional fetishism. The argument is to show why the constitutional discourse has lost its potential to explain and create social processes. The reason is that lawyers focus too much only on the content and interpretation of the provisions of the constitution, without considering a broader social context, which makes the constitutional discourse limited solely to legal issues with a simultaneous omission or underestimation of all other aspects of constitutionalism. This attitude of lawyers to the content of the constitution (or – in broader terms – to the provisions of law) is sometimes referred to even as idolatrous, hence the reference to the notion of fetishism in the religious sense. The aim of the text is to analyse the structure of this argument and to attempt to determine the impact it can have on constitutionalism.
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Opole
dc.contributor.authorJacek Srokosz
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-25T16:23:42Z
dc.date.available2025-07-25T16:23:42Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.published3/2019
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.physical291–305
dc.description.volume11
dc.identifier.doi10.7206/kp.2080-1084.287
dc.identifier.issn2080-1084
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/2218
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofKrytyka Prawa. Niezależne Studia nad Prawem
dc.relation.pages291–305
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.subjectlegal fetishism
dc.subjectconstitutionalism
dc.subjectconstitutional discourse
dc.subjectmismatch between law and reality
dc.subjectconstitutional crisis
dc.subtypeOriginal
dc.title

The Argument from Legal Fetishism in Constitutional Discourse

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