© Slovak Post, 2008 The year 2008, with its intrinsic symbolic meaning, marks several anniversaries of key events in modern Slovak history. The 15th anniversary of the creation of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic is one such event. Seated in the historicizing-style building of a former garrison of Jan Jiskra in Košice, the Court is the guarantor of constitutionality in Slovakia. It was established by the Constitution of the Slovak Republic on 1 September 1992, and the legal prerequisites to its formation were laid down by Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 38/1993. The Court became operational on 17 March 1993, today it represents one of the key constitutional pillars of Slovak statehood as well as the legal and democratic status of the Slovak Republic. The stamp portrays the Roman Goddess of Justice - a symbol commonly used by courts across Europe since the Renaissance. The motif is taken from a Baroque-style decoration of the Courtroom at the Old Town Hall in Bratislava. The decoration was created based on earlier Renaissance models by Johann Jonas Drentwett, a 17th century Augsburg-born painter. The central motif of the FDC is the architecture of the building of the Constitutional Court, portrayed with Archangel Michael holding a sword and a pair of scales - a scene reinterpreting antique motifs from a Christian perspective and taken from a wall painting in the church in Kraskov. The Roman Goddess of Justice on the cancellation was taken from a follis, a Roman coin dating to the 3rd - 4th century, drawing on the fact that Roman Law still forms the basis of today’s legal system. Classical attributes of the rule of law were used: the scales - a means of judging the guilty or not guilty, and the sword - a symbol of the execution of justice and judgements. These virtually timeless features are complemented by a buttress facade of today’s seat of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic. The overall elaboration of this motif brings a little bit of timelessness to contemporary Slovakia.