The Constitutional History of Romania

In Romania’s constitutional history we can find seven main laws adopted at different periods of time. The beginning of the first Romanian Constitution can be found in the year 1866, even if there existed other normative settlements, having general character, previous to this year, the entering in force of the first supreme law is reported in the second half of the 19 th century. The first two constitutions had a mainly democratic character, containing liberties, that couldn’t be found even in the similar documents of that period, at European level. The third one created an authoritarian regime of monarchy, a short time before the last world War, the following three have been characteristic to the communist period. The main supreme law is positioned on the line of the first constitutions, and was submitted to some variations, at 12 years from the moment it entered in force.