TY - JOUR AU - Litwin, Tomasz PY - 2019/01/17 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Editorial: The Reflection on the Constitution of the Republic of Poland from the Political Science Perspective JF - Horyzonty Polityki JA - HP VL - 9 IS - 28 SE - EDYTORIAL DO - UR - https://horyzontypolityki.ignatianum.edu.pl/HP/article/view/1702 SP - 7-8 AB - Although constitution is regarded as a legal act that has the highestposition in the hierarchy of legal acts in the particular state, regulating the basic issues concerning its functions, such as the principles of the constitutional-legal system, rights, freedoms and obligations of the individual and the system of governance, it has been a subject of interest for not only legal but also political scientists. Not without a reason during the twenty-year period between the World Wars the branch of law concerning the analysis of the constitutional rules was called “political law.” Furthermore, the American classification of the research areas in the political sciences contains the public law, including constitutional law. Such approach seems to be clearly right because legal rules, especially rules of a constitution, strongly influence the broadly considered political life... ER -