CONSTITUTIONAL AND NORMATIVE REGULATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS IN BULGARIA AT THE TRANSITION FROM PLANNED TO LIBERAL ECONOMY (1989 – 2019)

Abstract

The regulation of property at constitutional level can be seen as one of the most significant
consequences of the evolution of constitutional rights in the twentieth century, at least
because property is a true expression of civilizational development. It is indeed what allows
the regulation of property rights under the Bulgarian Constitutions of 1879, 1947, 1971 and
1991 to be seen not only as a legal expression of the spirit of the individual historical epoch,
but also as a way to realize the dominant ideology and economic organization of society. In
that sense, the review of the various constitutional concepts of property, from socialist
property, nationwide property to private property and the separation of private and public
property regimes, is rather an attempt to present not the legal form of the same, but rather the
socio-economic situation, expressed by this legal form.