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Obywatelskie nieposłuszeństwo jako gwarancja praw podmiotowych
Civil disobedience as a guarantee of subjective rights

Author(s): Marcin Pieniążek
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, Civil Society
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM Uniwersytetu Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego w Krakowie
Keywords: civil disobedience

Summary/Abstract: The article provides an insight into the notion of civil disobedience and its constituents. The subject is presented with the significance of civil disobedience as a means of protecting the subjective rights in mind. In the context of opposing theoretical and legal paradigms: legal positivism and the natural law, an analysis of the legality of civil disobedience as a means for protection of rights stemming from these laws is conducted. Subsequently, having accounted for the views of Gustav Radbruch and Ronald Dworkin, a compromise view providing a solution to the paradox of protecting the legal system by its infringement in an act of civil disobedience, is outlined.

  • Issue Year: 10/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-26
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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