| has gloss | eng: The 1948 Constitution of Romania was the first adopted after the establishment of the Communist regime, which it enshrined into law. It was modelled on the 1936 Soviet Constitution and adopted by the Great National Assembly (MAN) on April 13, 1948, being published in Monitorul Oficial the same day. The Romanian People’s Republic was defined as a “unitary and sovereign people’s state” that “came into being through a struggle led by the people, the working class at their head, against fascism, reaction and imperialism”. It proclaimed the principle of the sovereignty of the people, who “exercises its power through representative organs, elected by universal, equal, direct and secret vote”. In reality, because a single party (the Romanian Workers’ Party) controlled all the levers of power, this principle was never put into practice. |