Published: 2017-01-21

Can the system of canon law be a pattern for a legal system of federation of states?

PIOTR KROCZEK
Prawo Kanoniczne
Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/pk.2016.59.2.05

Abstract

The main question of the article is as follows: Can the system of canon law be a pattern for a legal system of federation of states? The answer to this question has a practical dimension in the context of the declaration of policy - "more Europe in the European Union", which is call for transferring the present union of states into a federation of states. The paper discuses several arguments, like: argument of the history of European legal systems, argument of the significance of law in Europe, argument of effectiveness of canon law, argument of material sources of canon law, argument of principles of canon law. All of the arguments are presented in accordance with scholastic methods and arguments pro and contra are juxtaposed. The answer for the research question is: negative.

Keywords:

system of canon law, legal system, United Europe, federation of countries

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KROCZEK, P. (2017). Can the system of canon law be a pattern for a legal system of federation of states?. Prawo Kanoniczne, 59(2), 73–87. https://doi.org/10.21697/pk.2016.59.2.05

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