The provinces united with Romania and the reunification Constitution (1923)

Abstract

The end of the First World War (1914-1918) was to completely change the face of Europe. Empires fell apart and from their ashes and new states were born based on the liberal “principle of nationalities”. Other countries, including Romania, completed their national state by uniting with provinces previously belonging various imperial crowns. From a constitutional point of view, the situation in these territories was quite confusing, at least until the drafting of the 1923 Reunification Constitution. The present study aims to research the constitutional architecture of Bessarabia, Bucovina, and Transylvania after the war, to analyze the necessity of adopting, at the time, the new constitutions, and to present the circumstances in which Romania's new fundamental pact was issued by the contribution of the post-war political class