Įstatymų konstitucingumas Lietuvos tarpukario konstitucijose ir jo kontrolės problema

Abstract

All the constitutions of Lithuania that were in force during the interwar period set their formal legal priority within the system of sources of law in the form and to the extent that were similar, by traditionally proclaiming that any law contrary to the Constitution has no force in the state and that only laws not in conflict with the Constitution are valid. These constitutions, however, did not provide for the mechanism to ensure the actual functioning of the said principles. It was considered sufficient that the Constitution, by proclaiming the laws that were in conflict with it as invalid, at the same time obligated the Seimas not to adopt, the President of the Republic—not to promulgate and the Government—not to countersign any such law. No attention was given to the recommendations that the Draft Constitution [...]