Comparison of the Protection of Citizens’ Rights in the Inter-war Czechoslovakia and the Wartime Slovak Republic Cover Image

Komparácia ochrany ľudských, občianskych a politických práv občanov v medzivojnovej Československej republike a vojnovej Slovenskej republike
Comparison of the Protection of Citizens’ Rights in the Inter-war Czechoslovakia and the Wartime Slovak Republic

Author(s): Tomáš Čentéš
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Czechoslovak Republic; Slovak Republic; constitution; anti-Jewish legislation; human and civil rights

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the constitutional protection of human and civil rights in the Czechoslovak Republic and the Czech-Slovak republic and its comparison with the protection of these rights in wartime Slovak republic for a better understanding of how quickly and dramatically the dehumanization of a part of the population can be carried out despite its validity and effectiveness. Slovak Republic, which was established in 1939, was created by the dissolution of Czech-Slovak Republic. Czechoslovak Republic, as one of the countries which have arisen on the ruins of the former Austria-Hungary Empire, was a modern country, democratic, respecting the main principles of the rule of law and equality of all its citizens before the law of the Republic. The purpose of my short article is to try to explain in a simple way the fact that in the Slovak Republic was created an anti-Jewish legislation, but not as a result of some coincidence and pressure from abroad, but that it was a result of thoughtful and pure rational calculation at the origin of the Slovak Republic, and this calculation was fully reflected in the new Constitution and other legislative adopted in summer 1939 and later.

  • Issue Year: 48/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 143-157
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovak