Institutions that Returned the Sovereignty of Albania. 1920

Abstract

There are many historical studies on the Congress of Lushnja, but not on the history of the political
institutions, political operators, the ones who organized or who proved to be a barrier to the
Congress. In July 29, 1913 Albania was proclaimed an autonomous, sovereign and hereditary
Principality. In 1919 at the Peace Conference Clemenceau and Lloyd were defending the thesis of
“the inability of the Albanians to self-determination”. As a solution to this they offered, sharing the
responsibility of governing between Yugoslavia and Italy and implementation of the secret Treaty of
London,of April 26,1915 on the, territorial division of Albania. The Congress of Lushnja, was a
radiant meteor in the hopeless and dark surroundings and it destroyed the anti Albanian political
intrigues. For the first time in Albania all powers of government were created under the principles of
Montesquieu. The fact sources and act sources of the discipline of law influenced on the creation of
the “National Council”, the “High Council” and the Cabinet. The historical tradition which was
beautifully expressed by S. Frasheri, was integrated with the modern political philosophy of the
Constitutional Law of Celzen. At the Congress of Lushnja, the international acts were de jure
abrogated.