PP019
Analítico de Periódico
P89_5
P89_5
AMARAL, Maria Lúcia
Sociedade civil e constituição ou do uso jurídico da noção de sociedade civil / Maria Lúcia Amaral
THEMIS - Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UNL, Coimbra, n.5 (Ano III.2002), p.5-18
Estante n.º 13
SOCIEDADE CIVIL, SOCIEDADES COMERCIAIS, DIREITO DAS SOCIEDADES
The article focuses on the legal meaning of the expression civil society. It was not my purpose to make the story of the different meanings that the expression has had in the constitutional tradition of the continental Europe, since the Enlightenment until today; nor to search for a common meaning that the expression may have in the every day language used now by lawyers. I simply wanted work on the base of the following hypothesis: (i) periods of constitutional transitions are also periods of renewal of language; (ii) by renewal of language we can mean either the appearance of new words or expressions, either the re-utilization of older expressions with renewed meanings; (iii) the expression civil society is an old expression that is now re-used by constitutional lawyers in continental Europe, (iv) that correponds to a specfic need felt by constitutional tradition of the continental Europe, in its present period of constitutional transition.