Some considerations on the meaning of the word constitution in the Romanian post-communist context

The word constitution stands at the base of the modern political vocabulary. However, it would seem that its carefully derived content might be at odds with what people nowadays commonly understand by it. In this article we will briefly approach this mismatch in Romanian context, in an attempt to characterize the quality of the post-communist democratic transition. We will explore the meaning, the purpose and the mismatch of the Romanian democratic conception from a constitutional perspective, while trying to raise worries on the feeble character of a constitutional experience without conceptual awareness.