Legal Security between Its Constitutionalization and the Regulation of Its Concept in the 2020 Constitutional Amendment

Abstract

The principle of legal security is of great importance in embodying the state governed by law and protecting and guaranteeing rights and freedoms. For this reason, the majority of countries around the world seek to constitutionalize this principle in their constitutions and stipulate it in their various legislations. Algeria, through the 2020 constitutional amendment, confirmed this by stipulating for the first time the principle of legal security, which constitutes an important and noticeable development in the constitutional document. If this indicates anything, it indicates the importance of enshrining the principle of legal security because of the contribution it makes to improving the quality of legal texts as a constitutional objective on the one hand, and ensuring the protection of rights and freedoms on the other.