Democraţia militantă şi "lecţia Weimarului" în România: aspecte juridice şi politice

dr. BOGDAN IANCU*

* e-mail: bogdan.iancu@unibuc.ro

Conf. univ. - Facultatea de Ştiinţe Politice, Departamentul de Teorie şi Istorie Politică şi Constituţională, Universitatea din Bucureşti

ABSTRACT

The article places Romania's recent experiences with 'militant democracy' in the conceptual and contextual framework of comparative law and comparative legal history. A first part of the argument analyses the paradigmatic core of militant democracy, the party ban, regarded as the presumptive 'lesson of Weimar'. Emphasis is placed on interwar German historical experiences and German post-war practices under the Basic Law. The concept as such of militant democracy as well as the specific constitutional instruments deriving from it are a German 'patent.' A second part of the study discusses a conceptual offshoot of militant democracy, 'individual militant democracy.' This was the type of militancy practiced by the...