CNP105Zk Constitutional Foundations of Public Power and its Organization

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2012
Extent and Intensity
12/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavel Kandalec, Ph.D., LL.M. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, CSc.
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Andrea Špačková, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Timetable
Fri 16. 11. 8:00–9:30 140, 9:35–11:05 140, Fri 23. 11. 15:05–16:35 034, 16:40–18:10 034, Fri 7. 12. 15:05–16:35 034, 16:40–18:10 034
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course student should be able to interpret basic constitutional and other sources of the Czech constitutional law in the field of the public power and to orientate themselves in the judicature of the Constitutional Court especially concerning the problems of the public administration.
Syllabus
  • 1. Constitutional features of state power. Legitimacy, legality, territorial sovereignty, territorial and personal eminent domain of the Czech Republic. 2. Forms of the exercise of the state power in the Czech Republic – by the people, by the state organs, by the organs of the self-government. 3. Separation and distribution of the state power in the Czech constitutional law, its conception. The role of the public administration. 4. Constitutional conception of a state organ and its office holders. Legal status of a state organ. 5. Form of government in the Czech Republic and the constitutional role of its public administration. 6. Legislative power and its relation to the public administration. 7. The government as the supreme body of the executive power. Legal status of the ministries and other central administrative agencies. The relation of the executive power to the legislative one. Member of Parliament and the public administration. 8. Constitutional foundations of the territorial self-government. 9. The bodies of the public power as a party to an action in the Constitutional Court.
Literature
    required literature
  • FILIP, Jan and Jan SVATOŇ. Státověda (Theory of State and Politics). 5th ed. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2011, 264 pp. ISBN 978-80-7357-685-1. URL info
  • FILIP, Jan. Ústavní právo.Učební text pro bakalářské studium na Právnické fakultě Masarykovy univerzity (Constitutional Law : textbook for bachelor study on Faculty of Law Masaryk University). 3rd ed. Adamov: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 120 pp. Edice učebnic PrF MU č. 479. ISBN 978-80-210-5626-8. info
    recommended literature
  • KLÍMA, Karel. Teorie veřejné moci (vládnutí). 2. přeprac a rozš. vyd. Praha: ASPI, 2006, 424 s. ISBN 807357179X. info
Teaching methods
Lectures to the basic problems, homework, e-lerning, home exercises with the recommended judicature and the selected laws.
Assessment methods
oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2012, recent)
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