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Talks from the World Law Congress: Constitution, Democracy, and Freedom. The Rule of Law as Guarantee of Freedom

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We are faced with the need to choose between two great models of system: one that guarantees freedom and the protection of human dignity through the rule of law and constitutional rights or another based on dirigisme and interference, in the private and public life, of powers that are not subject to public accountability and can exercise significant control over our lives. In this field, the law must take into account the ethical principles that the dignity of the person requires.

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  • Tenorio Sánchez, P. J. (Dir.), C. Elías Méndez, M.J. Falcón y Tella, M.O. Godoy Vázquez, S. González-Varas Ibáñez, L. Mezzetti, M.J. Roca Fernández, S. Romano, and C. Vidal Prado. 2014. La libertad de expresión. Su posición preferente en un entorno multicultural. Ed. Wolters Kluwer. ISBN: 978-84-938488-1-1.

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  1. Gay-Rosell Solano Abogados, Barcelona, Spain

    Eugenio Gay Montalvo

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  2. Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, Madrid, Spain

    Diego Solana

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Gay Montalvo, E. (2022). Talks from the World Law Congress: Constitution, Democracy, and Freedom. The Rule of Law as Guarantee of Freedom. In: Cremades, J., Hermida, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31739-7_172-1

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