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Le redko kdo poudarja, da dostop posameznikov do ustavnega sodišča ni namenjen zgolj varstvu človekovih pravic, ampak pomembno pripomore tudi k resnični ustavnosti pravnega reda. Ob napovedovanih ustavnih spremembah zato v tej razpravi razčlenim povezavo med zasebnim dostopom do ustavnega sodišča in pojmom pravne države. V ta namen izrišem tudi velik del pomenskega ogrodja pravne države. Na koncu različne oblike ustavnonadzornih ureditev razvrstim glede na to, ali pravno državo krepijo ali pa omejujejo. Jedro tega besedila je prevod prvega poglavja naloge: Private Access to Constitutional Justice – as a Foundation of the Rule of Law and as a Trigger of Asphyxia Constitutionis Justitiae, ki sem jo napisal v okviru študija na Evropski akademiji za teorijo prava v Bruslju. Za kritične pripombe se zahvaljujem Manuelu Atienzi in Riccardu Guastiniju. Dodatne pomisli bodo dobrodošle na naslov: andrej.kristan@gmail.com.

It is not often stressed that the individual’s access to the Constitutional Court is not intended solely for the protection of human rights. It also considerably enhances the objective constitutionality of the legal order. The present paper analyses the connection between the private access to the constitutional justice and the concept of the Rule of Law in the wake of the upcoming constitutional reform in Slovenia. To this purpose, a significant part of the conceptual frame of the Rule of Law is drawn. A distinction is made between the formal concept of the Rule of Law and the three material extensions (or dimensions) of this concept. The proposed conceptual reading is capable of manifesting the gradual character of the Rule of Law (RoL0, RoL1, RoL2, RoL3).