Abstrakt
The three arguably most important pillars of liberal democracy include: (1) the rule of the people - associated with the majority principle but also with the principle of time-limited government; (2) constitutionalism (especially separation of powers and the independent judiciary) and (3) liberty of an individual and of the society at large as one of the fundamental principles enabling the plurality of life paths. All three pillars can hold, to some extent, different meanings in different societies but their combination and mutual connections provide certain guarantee that those meanings will not deconstruct liberal democracy in a political community as such.
However, if any of these pillars significantly changes or weakens, the degree of this guarantee may considerably decrease or even disappear. That such important changes have occurred, was already pointed out during discussions at the successful inaugural conference of the Central and Eastern European Regional Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S CEE) in Budapest in April 2018, which addressed the topic 'The Power of Public Law in the 21st Century'.