Une constitution à éclipses ou un phénix constitutionnel ?

Abstract

This article aims to evaluate the Constitution of 1923 which was adopted by Greater Romania short after its unity. Its destiny was not peaceful. Repeatedly suspended, repealed, or violated, it will have known only a turbulent existence and an intermittent application. It nevertheless remains a reference and could have served to unite the Romanians under the aegis of a king in the aftermath of the events of 1989. But the choice of a republican form of government by the new constituents and the refusal to go back to the 1923 constitution and to the sources of Romanian constitutionalism—a solution that the law nevertheless seemed to impose—perhaps showed once more that history rarely goes back.

Keywords

• Romanian Constitution of 1923
• changed conception of the Constitution
• monarchy
• republic
• Romanian political scene