nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160701-094333 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160628s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160701-094333 doi eng 342 23 Marciniak, Bartosz Author aut Chronos and Kairos of Constitutionalism – The Polish case Marciniak, Bartosz Verfassungsblog 2016-06-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Τοῖς πᾶσι χρόνος καὶ καιρὸς τῷ παντὶ πράγματι ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανόν. This Septuagint translation of a verse from the book of Ecclesiastes points to a fundamental distinction regarding the transience – the distinction between chronos (time) and kairos (a right moment). Time is everlasting and consists of singular kairoi. Kairos, being its constitutive part, should not defy the structure of time. This distinction bares on the way in which we should understand any change of a constitution that claims to belong to free and equal citizens. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 constitution Constitutionalism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/chronos-and-kairos-of-constitutionalism-the-polish-case/ raw object