Not the End, but the Means and the Pathway: Thirty Years of the Functioning of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia

The Constitutional Court is not the end, but the means that we must properly understand, use and nurture. According to the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, this call is primarily addressed at the judges and other judicial staff of the Constitutional Court, who must understand their role as one of responsibility, not power. However, it also addresses all other actors of the legal order: both of the political branches of government, so as to create the appropriate conditions for the work of the Constitutional Court through their normative and budgetary actions; as well as, at least in certain ways, all of the applicants and complainants who lodge their applications at the Constitutional Court.

Key words: Constitutional Court, 30 years, legal order, purpose of law, separation of powers, protection of human rights.