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Puterea legislativă. Evoluţie constituţională post-decembristă
Legislative power. Constitutional post-December evolution

Author(s): Ioniţa Cochinţu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Universul Juridic
Keywords: Parliament; bicameralism; Constitution of Romania; democracy; rule of law; legislative power

Summary/Abstract: The Parliament of Romania was legally and constitutionally enshrined through Decree-Law no.92/1990 and through the 1991 Constitution of Romania, subject to various amendments, even through the 2003 constitutional revision, occasion on which the powers of the two Chambers of Parliament, based on the bicameral principle, were modified. The Constitution of Romania provides that the State shall be organized based on the principle of the separation and balance of powers – legislative, executive, and judicial – within the framework of a constitutional democracy. The Parliament is the “seat of democracy, the common intersection of political interests” with a pre-eminent position in the Romanian system of public authorities and it exercises the powers of utmost importance for State activity, and it is, as a whole, the expression of national sovereignty resulted from parliamentary elections.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 52-57
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian