Any human society needs an organizational framework for running the activity. In the broadest sense, this framework is the state. The revised Constitution of Romania practically sets a few coordinates for this framework respectively “the constitutional democracy” (Romania being characterized...

According to the Constitution of Romania, republished, “national sovereignty belongs to the Romanian person who exercises it through their representative authorities ... and through referendum". The aspect corresponds to the reality of any modern democratic system, being actually a form of...

When the concept of “supremacy of the Constitution” appeared, it also brought into discussion its protection. Thus, slowly but surely, different means of protecting the Constitution and its supremacy took shape, including the control of constitutionality. The purpose of the constitutionality...

The control of constitutionality has an extremely important role in the functioning of the state of law. The premise for the birth of the control of constitutionality and the outlining of a control of constitutionality system is the necessity to guarantee ‘the supremacy of the law’, or...

The contribution of taxes to the formation of state tax revenues varies, as a rule, depending on the level of economic development so that the contribution of the indirect taxes in developed countries is lower than that of the direct taxes and the share of the indirect taxes in the total tax...

The Constitutional Court of Romania was considering an innovation in the Romanian constitutional system. The Events in 1989 December ended the Communist dictatorship in Romania and allowed the re-establishment of democracy. And a strong negative reaction towards the totalitarian regime has been...

France is the state where the political control of constitutionality has found its full consecration, where the opposition to the jurisdictional control of constitutionality was so strong that, when the political control failed, transfer was made directly to the political-jurisdictional control...

As guarantor of the supremacy of the Romanian Constitution, the Constitutional Court is given, by the fundamental law of the State, a set of both jurisdictional and administrative attributes. A proper functioning of the Constitutional Court would not be possible in the lack of an internal...

The jurisdictional control of constitutionality can also be exercised by a specialized body, which is particularly established for this purpose (generally called court, council or constitutional tribunal) and, within a more general context, is called constitutional jurisdiction. Ever since their...

The competence of the Constitutional Court of Romania to settle constitutional conflicts between public authorities has generated and is still generating numerous debates and analyses due to both theoretical as well as practical implications. Although initially such an attribute was considered...