The Rights and the Proxies of the Monarch in Romania According to the Constitution of 1866

The article is devoted to the analysis and the char acteristics of the rights and the proxies of the monarch in
Romania according to the Constitution of 1866. The adop
tion of the first Basic Law was the fateful act in the history of the state-building processes of Romania and contributed to its development as the sovereign state. The Constitution had the contractual nature and established the compromise between the young bourgeoisie and the large landowners in the form of the constitutional monarchy. The king in Romania for a long time remained the person who was «above» of all the state and political leadership of the country. This status and the proxies of the monarch were delegated with the first Basic Law.