The author’s aim was to schematically highlight the exhibitions of theoretical models and
approaches of social rights and narrowly the right to social security in point of view of the 1989
Constitution and the 2011 Fundamental Law.
The first part of the article analyzes the theoretical questions and definitional refinements
regarding social rights, further introduces the different types of constitutional regulations in Europe.
In the second part, the author presents and analyzes the Constitution and the Constitutional
Court’s jurisprudence build thereon. Afterwards, briefly summarizes the most important
attributes of the „paradigm change” introduced by the Fundamental Law, namely the
diminution of social security into state objective
