Essential Elements of the Democratic Rule of Law as an Expression of Constitutional Identity in the Czech Constitution

The present article consists of two parts. The first part focuses on the concept of constitutional identity in a general comparative perspective and its connection with constitutional philosophy. In the second part, these premises are applied to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, specifically its core values denominated by the Czech Constitution as the essential elements of the democratic rule of law in order to analyze whether they can be used to define Czech constitutional identity and what specific principles constitute the constitutional identity of the Czech Constitution.