Lithuania

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Document Type:
Knyga / Book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Lithuania
Alternative Title:
  • Constitutional law: Lithuania
  • Lithuania: constitutional law
Publication Data:
Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International, 2023.
Pages:
118 p
Series:
International encyclopaedia of laws: Constitutional law
Contents:
The Author — Table of Content — List of Abbreviation — General Introduction — Part I. Sources of Constitutional Law: Chapter 1. The Constitution; Chapter 2. Hierarchy; Chapter 3. Codification, Interpretation and Publication — Part II. Form of Government: Chapter 1. General; Chapter 2. Head of State; Chapter 3. The Legislature; Chapter 4. The Executive; Chapter 5. The Judiciary; Chapter 6. Independent Advisory or Supervisory Bodies; Chapter 7. The State and Its Subdivisions — Part III. Human Rights, Citizenship and Status of Foreigners: Chapter 1. Citizenship; Chapter 2. Fundamental Rights and Liberties; Chapter 3. Rights and Status of Foreigners — Part IV. Specific Issues: Chapter 1. National Defence, Foreign Affairs and Treaty Making Power; Chapter 2. Taxing and Spending Power; Chapter 3. Emergency Laws; Chapter 4. The Constitutional Relationship Between Church and State — Selected Bibliography — Index.
Summary / Abstract:

ENThe text of the preamble of the 1992 Lithuanian Constitution (directly mentioning sixteenth-century Lithuanian Statutes and interwar Constitutions as constitutional sources) reflects the concept of a so-called historic constitution, under which the constitution is continuously undergoing historic developments and follows the spirit of the nation. Pursuant to this concept, the Lithuanian Constitution emerged in parallel to the statehood of Lithuania, and it has been continuously developing from the first legal acts of the State of Lithuania from the fourteenth century, through the Lithuanian Statutes of the sixteenth century until the traditions of the First Lithuanian Republic and finally crowned by the adoption of the Constitution in 1992. Under this view, even the 1992 Constitution may be regarded not as the end of Lithuanian constitutional development but rather as another historical step in a continuous journey. [...]. [Extract, p. 1-2]

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