Abstract
In the paper I will analyze the renewal of the constitution in the Baltic States and Georgia after the collapse of the socialist system. The renewal of the old constitutions are infrequent events in the world. In the Baltic States and Georgia, the restoration of the old constitutions had symbolic and political importance, reinforcing the doctrine of state continuity and legitimizing the new constitutional order after the transformation. I also will analyze the legal force of the constitutions after the occupation of the Baltic States by the USSR. The constitutions were of particular importance for the national resistance movements, since the validity of the constitutions was grounds for existence of the Baltic states' statehood and the obligation to restore the independence of the states de facto. Key words: constitution, constitutional legislator, the renewal of the legal force of the constitution, the doctrine of the continuity of the state, government in exile
Highlights
Post-socialist countries of Central Europe and former USSR republics, which gained independence, drafted and adopted new constitutions
Some authors have maintained that the contribution of constitutional drafting in Central Europe to the global constitutionalism is shamefully insignificant
The mechanisms of the separation of powers and human rights catalogues embedded in the constitutions of Central Europe, practical implementation thereof, and, first of all, the significant contributions of constitutional courts to the development of constitutionalism prove that this wave of development of constitutionalism has been essential not merely for the region and for the European legal space and global constitutionalism
Summary
Post-socialist countries of Central Europe and former USSR republics, which gained independence, drafted and adopted new constitutions. This extent of constitutional creative activity led to the conclusion that a new wave in the development of constitutionalism has arrived.. Some authors have maintained that the contribution of constitutional drafting in Central Europe to the global constitutionalism is shamefully insignificant.. The constitution describes the identity of the respective state, by covering not merely the legal, and the historic, political, national, cultural, and other extra-legal factors, which characterise the specific country.. Following WWII, on 19 December 1945, the validity of the Constitution of 1920 was reinstated, and it is still valid today. a much more versatile experience in this area has been contributed by the reinstatement of constitutionalism in the Baltic States
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