IDEOLOGY, VALUES, LEGAL NORMS AND CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

The article deals with the meanings and distinction between the terms "values", "general principles of law" and "written legal norms", as well as the relation of the terms to the meaning of the constitutional identity of the given state and its legal arrangement. There are two types of values, which are enshrined in the constitutional identity of the given country: 1) the values, which are historically and culturally connected with the given sovereign; 2) the values, which are introduced into the legal arrangement by the basic norm (for example, a basic norm-democratic, rule of law-based state). The values are not legal norms, but they are the reasons why the legal norms exist. Firstly, values are protected by the unwritten legal norms-general principles of law, which are derived from the basic norm-democratic state based on the rule of law. Then, they are protected also by the written legal norms concretized from the general principles of law and adopted by the legislature. Ideology provides the basis for the assumption of the basic norm and belief in it of those who apply legal norms, and serves as an educational basis for the sovereign to apprize and use legal arrangement. The role of the constitutional court in this process is crucially important.