Historical and Comparative View on Human Dignity in Constitutional Law
Historical and Comparative View on Human Dignity in Constitutional Law

Summary/Abstract: The consequences of the Second World War were catastrophic; after these events of a unique severity and distribution in human history, the belligerent countries emerged from the war ruined both from a financial and a moral point of view. Up to that point, being the attribute of philosophy and religion, the notion of human dignity was taken over by the main international documents on human rights and constitutional law. In this paper we intended to make a presentation from the historical point of view of this concept in the Romanian constitutional law and in the comparative constitutional law, focusing on the German, French, Spanish, Austrian, Italian and former communist states law. In the Romanian law, overcoming the communist period meant the development of a new Constitution, in accordance with which Romania has an axiological legal system, granting an important place to the values stated in Article 1 paragraph 3 of the Constitution, namely human dignity, the rights and freedoms of the citizens, the free development of the human personality, justice and political pluralism.

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