THE REORGANIZATION OF JUSTICE BY THE COMMUNIST REGIME ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ROMANIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF 1948 AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON ROMANIAN SOCIETY
THE REORGANIZATION OF JUSTICE BY THE COMMUNIST REGIME ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ROMANIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF 1948 AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON ROMANIAN SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: The Constitution of the Romanian People's Republic of 1948 represented the instrument by which the Romanian Workers' Party prepared the transition of the entire economy under state control. The constitution, being the fundamental law of the state, imposed the principle of popular sovereignty instead of national sovereignty, a fact that allowed the U.S.S.R. to intervene in the political and economic life of Romania. The Romanian state was organized on the principle of the unity of powers, and the leading role was held by the Romanian Workers' Party. The economic provisions prevailed over the political ones, the Constitution being the instrument, apparently legal, through which private property was abolished and the transition of the entire economy and private institutions under state control was being prepared, i.e.: banks, enterprises, means of production, internal and external trade, etc. Starting from 1948, the judiciary in Romania became an instrument to keep under control the population of Romania, condemned to live in a regime totalitarian communist.

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