Any human society needs an organizational framework for running the activity. In the broadest sense, this framework is the state. The revised Constitution of Romania practically sets a few coordinates for this framework respectively “the constitutional democracy” (Romania being characterized...

Because the most important human rights and freedoms, those considered essential in order to be better protected, are provided and guaranteed by the very text of the Constitution. Their regulation by the actual text of the Fundamental Law ensures their existence and recognition firstly and...

Among the variety of legal means of protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, constitutional justice deserves another position and recognition - because that was proved. The constitutionality control is a means of protecting and promoting fundamental rights and freedoms. The supremacy of...

According to the Constitution of Romania, republished, “national sovereignty belongs to the Romanian person who exercises it through their representative authorities ... and through referendum". The aspect corresponds to the reality of any modern democratic system, being actually a form of...

In this paper the authors have tried to capture some of the main ideas of the work of one of the most appreciated Transylvanian jurists – Vaida Ladislau – mainly those ideas that have correspondent in actuality. Thus, Ladislau Vaida’s ideas and theories about the nation, its foundation,...

Early manifestations of judicial review of constitutionality should be sought in the British constitutional system, although it is true that it needed the intervention of the Supreme Court of the Union States of America (1803) to build a system of judicial review in what concerns the...

Trafficking in human beings, a phenomenon with global dimensions constitutes a serious violation of human rights, dignity and freedom, a social phenomenon with negative consequences for the entire society. Countries have been concerned over the time to find the most effective policy measures to...

When the concept of “supremacy of the Constitution” appeared, it also brought into discussion its protection. Thus, slowly but surely, different means of protecting the Constitution and its supremacy took shape, including the control of constitutionality. The purpose of the constitutionality...

The control of constitutionality has an extremely important role in the functioning of the state of law. The premise for the birth of the control of constitutionality and the outlining of a control of constitutionality system is the necessity to guarantee ‘the supremacy of the law’, or...

The competence of the Constitutional Court of Romania to settle constitutional conflicts between public authorities has generated and is still generating numerous debates and analyses due to both theoretical as well as practical implications. Although initially such an attribute was considered...