Państwo prawa w klasycznej tradycji zachodniej i późnej nowoczesności w kontekście sporów wokół klauzuli demokratycznego państwa prawnego
A state ruled by law in the classic Western tradition and late modernity in the context of debates on the clause of a democratic state ruled by law

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to indicate the possible directions for clarifying the modern model of a state both democratic and ruled by law. To seriously take those two qualities, they must be regarded as mutually related. This is possible, when the democratic-political and legal-constitutional dimensions of the state can be related to an external dimension determining both the boundaries of the content of law and the decisions made by the Nation-sovereign (also in the Constitution) or specified by the will of the current majority of its representatives. Such perspective can be obtained primarily via considering the natural law in the disputes on a democratic state ruled by law. Taking into account transformations of the state and the law typical for the period of late modernity, as well as various traditions of neo-Positivist approach to law, four models of a democratic state ruled by law as a modern political form may be distinguished: constitutional democratic state ruled by law (in liberal-political and discursive versions), agonistic democratic state ruled by law, neorepublican democratic state ruled by law, personalistic democratic state ruled by law.

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