The Human Rights and Freedoms in Constitution of Romania of 1866

The purpose of the article is the analysis of the provisions of the first Constitution of
Romania of 1866 in terms of guaranteeing of Human Rights and freedoms by the state. The
article points out that the adoption of the Constitution of 1866 became a fateful state legal
act for the entire Romanian people, since it meant a radical change in the ratio of external
and internal factors in the state-building process of the Romanian state. To achieve this
goal, general scientific and special-scientific methods of cognition were used, in particular,
dialectical-legal-comparative, legal-formal. It has been determined that the accepted
Constitution in 1866 in terms of guaranteeing Human Rights and freedoms has had a truly
liberal character and has become the progressive state-legal act for the state-building
process of Romania; the need to follow the norms of the Basic Law gradually have made
constitutionalism as the form of thinking, which has contributed to the further expansion
of democratic rights and freedoms and the development of the democratic views in the
country.