CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING IONICA TAUTU'S DRAFT CONSTITUTION

THE MOST IMPORTANT CREATION OF POLITICAL THINKING IN THE DECADE FOLLOWING THE REVOLT LED BY TUDOR VLADIMIRESCU WAS THE ONE THAT REMAINED KNOWN IN ROMANIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AS THE "CONSTITUTION OF THE CARBONARS". THIS NAME IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE IDEAS UNDERLYING THIS PROJECT OF MOLDOVA'S POLITICAL REORGANIZATION WERE SHARED A T THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, FIRST OF ALL BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BOYARS WHO, ONCE THEY CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE IDEAS THAT HAD BEEN PUT INTO CIRCULATION DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1789, TRIED AND LARGELY SUCCEEDED IN POPULARIZING AND TRANSFORMING THEM IN LAWS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE BUILDING OF A MODERN SOCIETY FROM A SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, BUT ESPECIALLY POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW, BY IMPOSING WESTERN PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT, BUT ESPECIALLY BY SETTING UP INSTITUTIONS THA T WILL SIMPLIFY THE LIFE OF THE MOLDAVIAN PEOPLE.