SOME SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE GENESIS OF MODERN BELGIAN POLITICS
SOME SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE GENESIS OF MODERN BELGIAN POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the symbolism of the year 1830 in the transition from the old political order to the establishment and gradual consolidation of the modern Belgianstate. Modern constitutionalism was characterized by the struggle against monarchicalabsolutism and the concentration of political power in the hands of a single person. Inaddition, it supported the respect of civil rights and liberties, the individual being at thecenter of liberal philosophy, along with the idea of a representative government, theseparation of powers in the state and the supremacy of the rule of law. The spread of therevolutionary wave from 1830 throughout the country opened a new period in thehistory of Belgium, in which the ideas of centralizing the state and asserting nationalindependence merged with the urgency to give a direction to the state by choosing therepresentative monarchy as a form of governance and with the introduction of theSenate as an intermediate power. By analyzing the Belgian deputies’ speeches, thisarticle aims to make an introduction in the way the deputies imagined the constructionof the state and to advance the idea of a mutual trajectory of the Belgian society inaccordance with the young European nations.

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