Lupta pentru parlamentarism în timpul domniei lui Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866)*

* Această lucrare este finanţată printr-un grant al Ministerului Cercetării şi inovării, CNCS - UEFISCDI, proiectul numărul PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0013, în cadrul PNCDI III".

Manuel GUŢAN

Abstract: This paper aimes to emphasize the existence, between 1859 and 1866, of a sincere fight of the Romanian political elite for the liberal constitutionalism, generally, and for the parliamentary regime, especially, that constantly aimed to eliminate or, at least, to limit the authoritarian rule of the Prince. I would like to remark the decisive contribution of Cuza’s reign to the birth of the Romanian unitary and modern nation-state without turning the constitutional and political modernization into a minor issue. It is useful to notice and it is important to acknowledge the failure of the liberal constitutionalism during the reign of Cuza but, in the same time, it is important to notice that it was never abandoned,...