About State Symbols, National Holidays And Forms Of Government Or Why Romania Does Not Have A Republic Day

In our constitutional history, starting with the form of government, all three constitutional categories under our analysis in this paper (national or state symbols, the holiday or, more precisely, the National Day and the form of government) have been enshrined sooner or later at the level of fundamental law, and in order to determine whether and what is the structural link between them, we propose, first of all, to observe the changes that occurred in the choice and designation of elements with national symbol value according to the forms of government and political regimes they represented. Secondly, this study will try to observe the link between the forms of government that have succeeded each other in Romania and the (official) national holidays, namely the National Day of the country, which they have generated and enshrined in legal and constitutional terms. Thirdly, we will seek explanations for the obsolescence of the celebration of Republic Day, which, although it was officially celebrated for 40 years during the communist regime, never became Romania's National Day compared to the historical destiny and past and present legal status of May 10. Moreover, even today Republic Day is no longer celebrated either on 30 December or on any other date, although the republican form of government is very important in the economy of Romania's 1991 Constitution, having been declared non-revisable.