Regulamentul Organic
The Regulament was a quasi-constitutional organic law enforced in 1831–1832 by the Imperial Russian authorities in Moldavia and Wallachia. The document partially confirmed the traditional government and set up a common Russian protectorate which lasted until 1854. The Regulaments itself remained in force until 1858, and was followed by a series of constitutional proposals, advanced by boyars as a means to curb the authority of the princely families.
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The Regulament was a quasi-constitutional organic law enforced in 1831–1832 by the Imperial Russian authorities in Moldavia and Wallachia. The document partially confirmed the traditional government and set up a common Russian protectorate which lasted until 1854. Conservative in its scope, it also engendered a period of unprecedented reforms which provided a setting for the Westernization of the local society. The two principalities, owing tribute and progressively ceding political control to the Ottoman Empire since the Middle Ages, had been subject to frequent Russian interventions as early as the Russo-Turkish War. The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, signed in 1774 between the Ottomans and Russians, gave Russia the right to intervene on behalf of Eastern Orthodox Ottoman subjects in general, a right which it used to sanction Ottoman interventions in the Principalities in particular. Russia intervened to preserve reigns of hospodars who had lost Ottoman approval in the context of the Napoleonic Wars, and remained present in the Danubian states, vying for influence with the Austrian Empire, well into the 19th century and annexing Moldavia’s Bessarabia in 1812. The first reigns through locals were, in essence, short-lived: Sandu Sturdza as Prince of Moldavia and Grigore IV Ghica IV. Ghica were deposed by the Russian military intervention during the 1828–Turkish War, 1828-1829.
The last reigns were through high boyars: Tău Iăutu, who was defeated in a conflict between the decaying class of low-ranking families and the high-ranking boyars who obtained the decisive say in politics. The Regulaments itself remained in force until 1858, and was followed by a series of constitutional proposals, advanced by boyars as a means to curb the authority of the princely families. It was the first of a number of laws that led to the creation of the Russian state in the region, which was later to become the seat of the Duchy of Moldova and the Russian State of Transylvania. It is the only law that gave the two Principalities their first common system of government. The other was the Law of the Transylvanian Principalities, passed in 1832. It provided a framework for the establishment of the Moldavia-Wallachia Autonomous Republic, which came into existence in 1834. It also allowed for the formation of the Wallachian Autonomous State, which later became the Principality of Moldavia and later the Republic of Moldovia. It has been described as the most important document in the history of the region. The Russian state was also the only one that gave Moldavia a degree of autonomy in the form of a law-making body, the Council of Ministers, which existed from 1832 to 1858. The laws of the Principality were also the first to provide for a system of public education.
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