Constitutional conditions of the legislative process in Poland - theory vs practice

2, 1997. This allows us to indicate the continuation of the case law in statements referring to the rules arising from the principle of a democratic state of law. According to the established line of the case law of the Constitutional Court, the legislator, without important reasons, should not depart from the rules con-tained therein, because in this legal act the generally recognized rules of legislative proceedings have been cod-ified. The principles of legislative technique are a kind of canon that should be respected by the legislator of a democratic state of law. According to these principles the provisions of a legal act should be drafted so that they express the legislator’s intentions accurately and in a comprehensible manner for the recipients of the norms contained, and thus are precise, communicative and adequate to the intention of the legislator.