Valențe ale bicameralismului – concepții interbelice privitoare la rolul Senatului
Valences of bicameralism – interwar conceptions concerning the role of the Senate

Summary/Abstract: The various attempts to rethink the structure and composition of the Parliament of interwar Romania, including or especially its upper chamber, are one of the symptoms of the uneasiness produced by the way Romanian parliamentary democracy was actually functioning. In almost all cases, these projects and possible solutions were not conceived as hostile to the principles of classical constitutionalism and the separation of powers, but rather as a concretisation or deepening of them. They sometimes depart from the canons of classical constitutionalism, but do not appear hostile to it. Unfortunately, political change has been imposed not through constitutional reform or transformation – including the revision of the Fundamental Law – but through improvised solutions, arbitrariness and political violence.

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