The Croatian Constitutional Court recently rendered two important decisions concerning two national minorities’ rights: the right to vote in parliamentary elections; and the right to use minority language. In both decisions, the Court relied on a newly developed concept of Croatian national identity. This article explores and critically explains the wider social, political and legal context that has produced the emergence of the idea of a constitutional identity in Croatian constitutional jurisprudence. In addition, it evaluates the potential effects this new constitutional concept may have for future developments in Croatia’s political and constitutional system. This article also compares Croatian and Slovenian solutions to certain questions as the Slovenian Constitutional Court has ruled on strikingly similar issues, but arrived at different conclusions.

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克罗地亚宪法中的民族和宪法认同概念

克罗地亚宪法法院最近就两个少数民族的权利作出了两项重要裁决：在议会选举中的投票权；以及使用少数民族语言的权利。在这两项裁决中，法院都依赖于新发展的克罗地亚民族认同概念。本文探讨并批判性地解释了更广泛的社会、政治和法律背景，这些背景导致了克罗地亚宪法法理学中宪法身份观念的出现。此外，它还评估了这一新宪法概念可能对克罗地亚政治和宪法制度的未来发展产生的潜在影响。本文还比较了克罗地亚和斯洛文尼亚对某些问题的解决方案，因为斯洛文尼亚宪法法院对惊人相似的问题作出了裁决，