Misconceptions about the secularity of the State (constitutional perspective)
Keywords:
Rule of Law; Constitution; secularism; confessionalism.Abstract
This text seeks to identify the misunderstandings that have been built up about the secularity of the State. Such misunderstandings generate an unjustified stigma in relation to the confessionalism of the State and lead to the wrong perception that the realization of the Rule of Law and the guarantee of a developed society necessarily presupposes a rupture with the church.
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