Proclamation of Islaz and the birth of the Romanian liberal constitutionalism: a response to Professor V. Hanga
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Keywords

Proclamation of Islaz
modern Romanian constitutionalism
constitutional transplant
Romanticism
Historicism

Abstract

This article is replying to Professor Vladimir Hanga’s core ideas about the Wallachian Proclamation of Islaz (1848) from both an analytical and hermeneutical point of view. It argues against the Proclamation’s nature of a bill of rights, stressing its peculiar ethos and lack of clear liberal goals; it confirms V. Hanga’s allegations about the influence of the French revolutionary ‘declarations des droits’ but it emphasizing the overwhelming influence of the French 1848 Constitution; it is backing a hermeneutical perspective that is trying to explain the content and ethos of the Proclamation through the lens of the Romanian philosopher and writter Ion Heliade Rădulescu.

https://doi.org/10.24193/SUBBiur.65(2020).4.31
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