STATUL DEMOCRATIC - OPŢIUNE ŞI COMPONENTĂ A MARII UNIRI
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE - OPTION AND COMPONENT OF THE GREAT UNION

Summary/Abstract: .1he present paper analyses .the essential documents which preceeded and prepared tbe t;reat Union of 1918 as weB as the acts which show the Union of Bassarabia, Bukowina., aud Transylvania with ROplania from the perspective of the aspiration of the Romanian people towards a parliamentary regime, c<Qlstitutional and democratic. The conclusion ia t·hat in 1918 the RomaniţU1s were animated by democratic ideals which they expre&sed in their decisions of Union from Chişinău (March 1918), Cernăuţi (November 1918) and Alba Iulia (1 December 1918). Tbe most representative spokesmen of the Romanian people, lui':. ltlaniu. Vasile Goldiş. Ioan Nistor, G. Grigorovici, P. Halipa etc., gave expression to the&e democratic aspirations pf -the people from Transylvania, Bukowina and Bassarabia, aiming at.a deep reformation of the Romanian society in the spirit of an advanced social democracy. The social and political democracy advocaled by the authors of the Great Union of 1918' tras eonsidered a guarantee of the solidity and durability of the Romanian national state. .+- permanent concern of those who made the Great Union was to fully guarantee both iberty aud equality in rights and obligations of the national minorities. Thus, from an option aud a component of the Great Union, the democratic state became a reality in Romania between the two World Wars as a result of the application of the 1923 Constitution, of the agrarian and electoral reforms aud of other laws with democratic and liberal ch~acter. The democratic spirit of the Constitution of the Unification, the political mllltipartitifm and the liberty of the expression, meeting and association established a constitutional, deeply democratic regime in Romania between 1918-1938, which contrasted with the totalitar regimes set up in other European countries in the period between the two World Wars. With a11 its limits and imperfections, the democlatic regime frcm Romania betwun the two World Wars was a reflection of the Great Union from 1918 and a guarantee of its duration.

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