The Constitution of United Romania of March 1923: A Consecration of National Unity and the Fulfillment of a Popular Desideratum

Abstract

The adoption and entry into force of the new Constitution meant, first of all, a consecration of the Great Union of 1918 and thus the fulfillment of a popular desideratum, which gave it special legal and factual value. It provided, at the same time, clear and firm options in favor of a political, socio-economic and cultural path prepared in the previous years by the postwar Liberal govern ment, but also in part by the Averescu government, both inspired by the European neoliberal doctrine. It was, finally, a call of all democratic forces to national solidarity, in order to ensure the modernization of the political and social-economic structures of the new Romania, objectively re quired by the state framework established by the Great Union in 1918, according to the doctrine of “development by ourselves.”