O analiză a conceptului de cetățean din perspectiva primei Constituții a României
An Analysis of the Concept of Citizen from the Perspective of the First Romanian Constitution

Summary/Abstract: In this study I propose to analyze the concept of citizen through the legal language reflected by the first Romanian Constitution. The importance of this study is given by the increased interest manifested in European historiography for the conceptual history in general and for the decoding of the concept of citizen, especially in French, Britain and German cultural spaces in particular. All democratic regimes are built based on the concept of citizen. This became the center of the political project and had a key role in redefining social identities. The problem of political rights concerned the Romanian society especially in the second half of the 19th century, when the establishment of the modern state brought to the foreground of debates the right to vote and the political participation. The legislation regulating the right to vote, understood as a discursive product of the time and interpreted in the ideational, social and cultural context in wich appears may open new research directions.

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