UN PERIPLU ISTORIC: MAREA BRITANIE ÎN EPOCA INTERBELICĂ
A HISTORICAL JOURNEY: GREAT BRITAIN IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: Promoting at the European level a politics of tolerance and reconciliation, the case of Great Britain after the World War I unfolds a political program dedicated to the economic recovery and the internal regulation with the express purpose of avoiding a potential national ruin. The present paper follows, more descriptively than analytically, the way in which the interwar parliamentary democracy consolidated on the foundations of an unwritten constitution, the common law and the coherent separation of state powers. The role of the prime minister is more important than ever since he embodies the bond between the king and the cabinet, along with the role of the parliament which guarantees the representativity of the people through the introduction of direct election. Our endeavour casts light upon the weakness of the British democracy in the interwar period, obsessed by the home situation and the preservation of balance of world power, which loses sight of the obvious lack of correspondence between the ideal of peace from home and the national ideals across the world, either justified or extremist. Moreover, the long-lasting imperialist mentality would not limit the colonial desire for self-determination.

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