“Governance by the Rule of Law”: Parliamentarism in Romania - Constitutional Traditions and Topicality
“Governance by the Rule of Law”: Parliamentarism in Romania - Constitutional Traditions and Topicality

Summary/Abstract: The present Romanian constitutional context underscores particular coordinates of the institution of Parliament and parliamentarismwhose specificity is given by the democratic traditions of the Romanian state and people in the area of parliamentarism. These traditions become normative through provisions of Article 1 (3) of the Constitution according to which “Romania is a democratic and social state, governed by the rule of law, in which human dignity, the citizens’ rights and freedoms, the free development of human personality, justice and political pluralism represent supreme values, in the spirit of the democratic traditions of the Romanian people and the ideals of the Revolution of December 1989, and shall be guaranteed”. The present study pursues the legal determination of the fundamental coordinates of current Romanian parliamentarism through the analysis of the role and the bicameral structure of the Parliament of Romania, as well as through the analysis of the statute of the institution of MP in our constitutional system.

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