PRINCIPIUL LOIALITĂȚII ȘI CONSTITUȚIA INVIZIBILĂ A ROMÂNIEI

This doctoral research investigates the case law development of the principle of loyalty within
the framework of the invisible constitution theory. Uncodified counterpart of written constitutional
rules, the invisible constitution belongs to a broader understanding of the concept, specifically the
constitution in its material sense. Contemporary examples are found within the British constitutional
order (e.g. constitutional conventions and case law), the French bloc de constitutionnalité (i.e.
complementary unwritten rules) and the case law of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (i.e. the
Sólyom model). Assuming a national invisible constitution exists, the paper aims to demonstrate that
the principle of loyal cooperation belongs to such an invisible dimension of the Romanian
constitutional order.