THE DOCTRINE OF A STABLE STATE IN THE LIGHT OF CONSTITUTIONAL IMMUNITY

Abstract

This article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the conceptual foundations of the doctrine of resilient statehood and constitutional immunity. It is argued that the effectiveness of the republican form of government is determined not by the formal perfection of the constitutional text, but by the real capacity of the state system for self-regulation, self-restraint, and the reproduction of its institutional identity. The article introduces the concept of the "constitutional republic" as a social immune system, identifies the symptoms of constitutional imbalance — including institutional deformation, the erosion of trust, civic apathy, and the phenomenon of "managed immunodeficiency" — and examines partocracy as a pathological transformation of the republic. Special attention is devoted to the autoimmune effect; whereby protective mechanisms turn against the very foundations of the constitutional order they were designed to safeguard. The article advances a broad, system-functional understanding of constitutional immunity as the capacity of the constitutional order for self-preservation, the restoration of normative equilibrium, and the reproduction of public trust, and demonstrates that the guarantee of constitutional immunity constitutes the necessary and sufficient precondition for ensuring sustainable statehood.