1922 m. Lietuvos valstybės Konstitucija: ištakos, idėjos, atmintis

LTLeidinyje aptariamos 1922 m. Lietuvos Valstybės Konstitucijos ištakos, nagrinėjamas pagrindinio valstybės įstatymo turinys ir apžvelgiami nepriklausomos tarpukario valstybės konstitucinės raidos bruožai. Šios knygos penkiolikoje skyrių analizuojami įvairūs Pirmosios Lietuvos Respublikos konstitucionalizmo aspektai. Aptariama, koks buvo nuveiktas darbas rengiant 1922 m. Konstituciją, kokia buvo joje įtvirtinta valstybės santvarka, valdžių galių pasiskirstymas, piliečių teisės ir jų ribos. Taip pat nagrinėjamas tautinių mažumų juridinis statusas valstybėje ir jo nustatymo aplinkybės. Atkreipiamas dėmesys į konstitucines nuostatas, kuriomis įtvirtintas lietuvių kalbos valstybinis statusas. Lyginamos pirmosios Estijos, Latvijos ir Lietuvos valstybių konstitucijos ir jų priėmimo aplinkybės. Ieškoma atsakymo į klausimą - kodėl pirmoji ir vienintelė demokratinė tarpukario Lietuvos konstitucija galiojo tik ketverius metus. [Anotacija knygoje]

ENThis publication deals with the origins of the 1922 Constitution of the State of Lithuania, the content of the main code of law in the state and changes in the constitutional development of the independent interwar state. The process of restoration of the modern Lithuanian state was considered complete with the adoption of the first, permanent Constitution of 1922. This document replaced the hitherto valid, successive provisional constitutions of 1918, 1919 and 1920. The permanent Constitution enforced the provision announced in the declaration by the Constituent Seimas of 1920 concerning order in the state. Lithuania became a republic. This publication contains a description of the first constitutional drafts of the state that was restored in 1918 and presents the main points of the early provisional constitutions. The circumstances surrounding the constitution drafting process and discussions among members of the parliamentary commission responsible for producing the draft are described. Readers can learn about the state government structure outlined in the 1922 Constitution, the definitions of civilians’ rights and duties, as well as the languages, state and capital symbols representing modern, early 20th-century statehood. A separate chapter of this publication contains a description of the constitutional rights of national communities, which were a major point of debate in the Seimas when deliberating the constitution draft.The Lithuanian Constitution is compared to the first constitutions of Estonia and Latvia. Preconditions that determined the shortlived existence of the main law of the Lithuanian state are discussed, also attempting to find an answer to the question of why the Lithuanian political government was the first among its northern neighbours to change its Constitution already in 1928. There is a description of the debates that took place in the 1930s about the necessity of another, third Lithuanian Constitution, drawing comparisons between the first (1922) and third (1938) constitutions. The publication concludes with fragments of accounts of memory and commemoration traditions in interwar Lithuania dedicated to the formation of the Constitution. [From the publication]