The Procedure for Amending the Constitution in the Republic of Poland – Selected Issues
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https://doi.org/10.22364/jull.15.13Keywords:
Constitution, Republic of Poland, amendments to the Constitution, procedure for amending the ConstitutionAbstract
The article examines the procedure of amending the existing Constitution of the Republic of Poland. The authors present the procedure of amending the existing Constitution. The authors also consider in the article the scope of the postulated changes and seek the answer to the question whether the changes of the existing Constitution are needed. They also analyse the changes that have already been made to the Constitution. The research methods used for preparation of the current article are the dogmatic-legal method and the empirical method.
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