Abstract
The article is a contribution to broad discussions concerning the crisis of liberal democracy. The starting point of the article is human dignity and its role in recent political and legal discourse.
The weakening of the concept of human dignity in both spheres can be identified as one of the accompanying phenomenon of the crisis of liberal democracy. To provide a critical analysis of the crisis itself the article develops a semantic model of liberal democracy and by its use it tries to analyze some of the problematic aspects of the crisis, e.g. the theoretical problem of the relationship between liberal and democratic political and constitutional arrangement or the serious issue of the rise of identity politics and anti-system political parties.