TRECEREA DE LA FORMA CUTUMIARĂ A REGULILOR DE PROCEDURĂ PARLAMENTARĂ DIN ADUNĂRILE OBȘTEȘTI LA CONSACRAREA LOR ÎN NORME JURIDICE SCRISE

The formation of public law in the Romanian Principalities bears, on the one hand, the imprint
of the political will of the states with strong influence in this part of Europe in the first half of the 19th
century, and, on the other hand, it reflects the spirit of Western constitutional thought and practice,
much modernized after the French Revolution of 1789. Concerned with the constitutional and
administrative modernization of the two Principalities were mainly Russia, France, England and
Austria, each of these great European powers pursuing, in fact, their own objectives, of political and
economic nature. Instead, Turkey did not support at all the modernization of Wallachia and Moldova,
being interested in maintaining the Phanariot regime. At the confluence of the contradictory interests
of these powers, the Principalities did not have an active, decisive role in their own constitutional and
administrative modernization. Nevertheless, the changes and transformations produced in the
Principalities at the initiative and with the determination of the mentioned states, were generated by
the clauses of some international documents (the Treaty of Adrianople of 1829, the Peace Treaty
between Russia and Turkey of 1856 and the Paris Convention of 1858). To these it is added the
Developing Statute of the Paris Convention, imposed by the will of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza