INTRODUCTORY WORD BY THE SEIMAS OMBUDSMEN
In addition to other constitutional principles enshrined in the applicable version of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania adopted
in the referendum of 25 October 1992, such as the principle of the supremacy of the Constitution, the integrity of the Constitution, the rule of law, the
secular state, the separation of powers, etc., the crucial principle is the principle of social orientation.
Although there is no definition of a social state in the modern Constitution of Lithuania, the totality of the constitutional rules reflects the social orientation of
the state. A socially oriented state is not identified with social state, especially a welfare state, nor opposed to the rule of law, but in the doctrine of a modern constitutional law it forms an indivisible whole which characterizes the construction of a democratic state.