Commission Newsletter: 1995 |
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| Authors: | JOHN ROGISTER JOHN H GREVER JOHN ROGISTER |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of History , University of Durham , 43-46 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EX, UK;2. Department of History , Loyola Marymount University , 7101 West 80th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, USA |
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| Abstract: | SUMMARY In this article, M. Manolova examines the provisions in the Bulgarian Constitution of 1879 which concern the responsibility of government ministers. It is shown how these provisions were unusually explicit in establishing that ministers were both individually and collectively responsible for their actions in government and in insisting that the power to institute proceedings lay exclusively with the parliament. The article compares the Bulgarian provisions with those in similar liberal constitutions of the period and notes the several instances down to 1919 when the provisions were implemented, in order to suggest that the principal of ministerial responsibility had a special importance in Bulgarian constitutional theory and practice. |
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