Europe’s New Constitutional Democracies as Constitutional “Postmodernity”? (or even the Modernization of Classic Constitutional Models?)

Revolutionary political changes in the former socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, including the Balkans, have taken place since the early 1990s. 20th century and fundamental changes in constitutional systems. The creation of democratic constitutionalism brought several original solutions in the parliamentary form of government, the institutional structure of the constitutional division of power, and territorial self-government. Thus, the protection of constitutionally guaranteed human rights and the protection of constitutionality through a specialized constitutional judiciary has significantly expanded in Europe. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate that the creative constitutionalism of these new democracies brought many new constitutional solutions. At the same time, the construction of democratic constitutionalism made significant use of classical constitutional models of democratic constitutionalism such as the French, English and US. In this way, the article builds on the hypothesis whether it is a modernization of classic constitutional models.