Atsakingo valdymo principas ir jo įgyvendinimas
Principle of Responsible Government and Its Implementation

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to discuss the principle of responsible governance as a basic principle, upon which the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania has relied in explication of the peculiarities of constitutional status of Member of Parliament. On the basis of analysis of the decision of the Constitutional Court, made on 1 July 2004, this article seeks to reveal the specifics of argumentation of the decisions of Constitutional Court, as well as their impact on legislation. Institutions of constitutional supervision in two post-communist countries (Hungary and Lithuania) are compared with a focus on the causes and reasons of their activism and the legitimacy of such activism.

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