On the Communist Nationalization of Houses and the Constitutional Clauses of Expropriated Owners Cover Image

Despre naţionalizarea comunistă a imobilelor şi clauzele constituţionale ale exproprierilor
On the Communist Nationalization of Houses and the Constitutional Clauses of Expropriated Owners

Author(s): Emanuel Mihail Socaciu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: nationalization; communist nationalization; housing nationalization; private property; public rights

Summary/Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to analyze the communist nationalization of houses in the theoretical framework provided by the main discussions of the takings clause in recent legal philosophy. The first thesis defendend here is that nationalization should be considered as a taking, rather than a regulation. A second argument tries to support the thesis that the natinalization decree violates the taking clause of the 1948 communist constitution of Romania, in any reasonable moral and legal interpretation of it.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 126-127
  • Page Range: 31-43
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian