Rolul Constituției din 1923 în modernizarea României. O analiză sociologică
The role of the 1923 Constitution in the modernization of Romania. A sociological analysis

Summary/Abstract: Although it began as an attempt to revise the 1866 constitution determined by the substantial changes in the territory of Romania, the 1923 Constitution became a concrete fact when the members of the Constituent Assemblies met on March 27, 1922 before King Ferdinand. The members of the Constituent Assemblies came up against the limits that a simple revision would have entailed, as had happened in 1917 in a dramatic situation for Romania given the war situation. The political and diplomatic circumstances of 1923 required much more a new constitution that was necessary in the new political construction of the Romanian state after the Union of 1918. First of all, the future Constitution had to regulate the new political and legal order and was to create the premises for governing a state that had doubled its territory and population. The situation of 1884 could not be repeated. In that year, through a single additional article (numbered 133), the provisions of the 1866 Constitution were ordered to be applied to the new territory integrated in 1878, Dobrogea, a former very backward Ottoman territory. In 1923, the situation was much more complicated and challenging given the fact that territories that had belonged to different states had to be integrated. Now, a century after this event, we evaluate the social, economic, political and legal effects that the 1923 Constitution had in the process of modernizing Romanian institutions and society.

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