The present constitution of the Republic of Lithuania is one of the Constitutions in Central and Eastern countries adopted at the end of XX century. There is no doubt that its conception had been influenced both by national and international factors: the countries’ constitutional traditions, the scholarly ideas of M. Romeris, proposals submitted by the Lithuanian and foreign researchers, institutes of former regime, democratic provisions of Western Europe, the experience of Central and Eastern European countries. This work is the analysis of a short, but diverse and complicated both in political and legal sense of the Lithuanian constitutionalism during 1988 – 1992, demonstrating the development of the vision of the constitutional regulation, how the creative process of the present Constitution was influenced by the changing political legal reality and the political life of the constitution process. The complex application of historical-legal and causal methods, using the analysis of normative and non-normative documents as well as applying other legal methods brings to the conclusion of the Master thesis that the preparation of the Constitution is a consecutive and purposeful process of creation and search for the most suitable constitutional model. Despite the fact that during the development process of the Constitution a quite heated political debate was taking place, the present Basic Law can be reasonably referred to as the result of the political and legal compromise... [to full text]