Vladyslav Rak analyzes the causes of the shift in the Federal Constitutional Court's understanding of the free democratic basic order in 2017. He attributes this shift to a changed semantic content of fundamental concepts of state theory that has emerged over the course of the past decades.
The Federal Constitutional Court altered the substantive content of the concept of the free democratic basic order in its 2017 NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany judgment by clearly reorienting it toward the individual on the one hand and by noticeably internationalizing it on the other. Vladyslav Rak illustrates this shift by reference to the party ban judgments and relates it to an underlying transformation in the understanding of fundamental concepts of state theory, above all those of the state and the constitution. He concludes that the point of reference for the concept of the political is no longer the state, but rather an overarching structure of order. This structure is the large-space order in the form of the Western community of states and its political idea embodied in "Western values." For the reception of the concept, these factors are now decisive, since the monopoly over determining friend and enemy is said to lie with the large space order.
Vladyslav Rak
Geboren 1992; Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Europa-Universität Viadrina; 2020 Erste Juristische Prüfung; Forschungsreferent am Deutschen Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung Speyer; 2025 Promotion (Frankfurt/Oder); Rechtsreferendariat im Bezirk des Brandenburgischen Oberlandesgerichtes (Potsdam).
Bundesverfassungsgericht Demokratie Demokratieprinzip freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung Freund-Feind-Unterscheidung Großraumordnung Grundordnung internationale Ordnung NPD-Urteil Parteiverbot Politik Rechtsprechungswandel Staatsbegriff Staatslehre westliche Werte