In 2005 the Instruction Dignitas connubii came into force. e 10th anniversary of its binding is a good opportunity to evaluate the document in perspective of the art of legislation, that is, from the viewpoint of the principles of legislative draing and the techniques of legislative draing. The document was analyzed and some comments were made. ey refer to the very fact of establishing the instruction, and also to size, character, and type of it. e publication of the document was inspected as well. In addition, some critical comments were made about the repeating of the Code of Canon Law 1983 in Dignitas connubii. Also the hazard of the practice in question for the outcome of the process of interpretation was claried. e last remark refers to the cross references in the instruction. It can be said that the draing and establishing of the Instruction was made with disrespect and sometimes even with violation of the art of legislation.
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.
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Główne pytanie niniejszego artykuły brzmi następująco: Czy system prawa kanonicznego może być wzorcem dla systemu prawnego federacji państw? Odpowiedz na tę kwestię ma wymiar praktyczny w kontekście deklaracji politycznej – „więcej Europy w Unii Europejskiej”, która wzywa do zmiany dzisiejszej unii państw w ich federację. W artykule prezentowanych jest kilka argumentów: argument z historii systemów prawnych Europy, argument z wagi przykładanej do prawa Kościele, argument z efektywności prawa kanonicznego, argument ze źródeł materialnych prawa kanonicznego, argument z zasad prawa kanonicznego. Wszystkie te argumenty są prezentowane zgodnie ze scholastyczną metodą, czyli są zestawiane „za” i „przeciw” ich przyjęciu. Odpowiedź na główne pytanie badawcze brzmi: negative.