Ochrona interesu prawnego związanego z przynależnością do wspólnoty samorządowej

Abstract

This study addresses the protection of the legal interest related to membership in a self-government community. The first part of the article discusses the contexts of participation in self-government forms of direct democracy. The next section of the article provides other examples of institutions that can protect the legal interest arising from membership in a territorial self-government community. Ultimately, the aim of the study has been to identify and distinguish cases in which membership in a self-government community is sufficient for formulating the content of a legal interest of systemic origin/systemic nature. The analysis has also allowed for the “prior” identification and distinction of a systemic interest in formal terms, located at the level of systemic law, based on the membership in a self-government community (considering the key attributes of self-governing administration, such as corporateness and self-governance). The systemic interest of a member of a self-government community in substantive (content-related) terms, just like its (preceding) formal counterpart, is derived from and directly concerns membership in a self-government community, with the proviso that it is understood in terms of an influence directly affecting the substantive aspects of the self-governing form of action. The discussion also covers public subjective rights in the context of the possibility of participation of residents – members of the self-governing community – in the exercise of public authority and the possibility of interaction with the public administration in settling certain public matters.

Keywords

• legal interest
• public subjective rights
• self-government forms of direct democracy