USTAVNI ODNOS GRAĐANSKOG I NACIONALNOG: PRIMJER CRNE GORE, HRVATSKE I MAKEDONIJE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIVIL AND NATIONAL: THE CASE OF MONTENEGRO, CROATIA AND MACEDONIA

Summary/Abstract: Interests that shape the functioning of the most of today’s political communities are numerous. Among them, the relationship between civil and national interests is the one being distinguished. The situation is simple, especially for the major ethnic group, when national minorities make up a small percentage of the population as is the case in Croatia, which is defined as the national state of the Croatian people and also proclaims the principle of national sovereignty, which stresses the democratic foundations of the state and also provides interest of the constituent/state-building nation. The more heterogeneous a society is, the harder it is to balance the constitutional relationship. Montenegro, for example, is the state in which there is no an absolutely major ethnic group and who is committed to building a democratic, not an ethnocratic foundations of society. Macedonia’s constitutional arrangement, derived from the Ohrid peace agreement represents a compromise between the major Macedonian and minor Albanian ethnic groups and is based on the deviation from the majority-based - the democratic way of making decision in matters concerning collective particularities of Albanian ethnic group.

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