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Vol 14, 2025
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Received: 26.08.2025. >> Accepted: 14.10.2025. >> Published: 21.11.2025. Original scientific paper Law Sciences Editor: Darjana Sredić

HUMAN DIGNITY AS PART OF THE MATERIAE CONSTITUTIONIS

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Vedran Zlatić
Vedran Zlatić
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Faculty of Law, University of Split , Split , Croatia

Abstract

Over time, the content of the materiae constitutionis has not changed significantly, so even in the oldest constitutional texts, we can find provisions regarding the organization of power, a catalog of constitutional rights and freedoms, and finally, provisions about constitutional amendments. However, in the period after the Second World War, an indispensable part of the materiae constitutionis became those provisions that relate to the constitutional recognition and guarantee of human dignity as one of the core principles of the constitutional order. In this paper, the author will, through a comparative analysis, attempt to determine how constitutions increasingly include provisions on human dignity in their texts. Finally, special attention will be given to the role such provisions play within modern constitutional orders.

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