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On 26 September 2017, the Parliament of Georgia adopted the much-debated constitutional amendments with 117 voting in favor and two against. The vote was boycotted by the opposition. According to the new legislation, direct presidential elections are to be abolished and the country will transfer to
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On October 28, 1990, the first multi-party elections of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR were held in Georgia. Just 16 days after the election, the Supreme Council made a number of changes to the still-in-force 1978 Soviet constitution. The words "Soviet Socialist" were removed from the name
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In early 1995, in addition to Eduard Shevardnadze's draft, the Constitutional Commission already had 12 drafts submitted by various political groups, organizations and citizens. All the projects were studied in more or less detail at different levels of the commission, there was also an attempt to
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of the Republic of Georgia (Triumvirate) and the Provisional Government were established. The Military Council repealed the revised Soviet transitional constitution and legislation, and on 21 February 1992 adopted the Declaration on the Restoration of the 1921 Constitution. In the same year, the
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On 15 October 2010, the Parliament of Georgia adopted with 112 votes to five major amendments to the constitution, which significantly reduced powers of the president of Georgia in favor of the prime minister and the government. The new constitution went into force upon the 17 November 2013
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In May 1995, the final discussions began at the plenary sessions of the Constitutional Commission. The discussion was based on the draft presented by Eduard Shevardnadze. On July 2, the State Constitutional Commission passed the draft by 64 votes against 4 and submitted it to the
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in the nation's history, but which, in fact, failed to fulfill its function and lasted only four days. Georgia then adopted four Soviet constitutions in 1922, 1927, 1937 and 1978, which were typical Soviet constitutions and did not differ in any way from the constitutions of the
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According to one of the resolutions of the Parliament, the projects developed by the working groups were to be united with the editorial team; The final version of the Constitution was to be adopted first by the State Constitutional Commission and then by the
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On November 6, 1992, the Parliament of the Republic of Georgia adopted the Law on State Power, known as the Small Constitution. At that time, this law turned out to be the only act that could replace a basic law in a country left without a constitution.
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with an overwhelming majority of 96 percent of the votes cast. Constitutional amendments were rushed through Parliament in February strengthening the powers of the president to dismiss parliament and creating the post of prime minister.
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The forms of state arrangement established by the Constitutional Commission turned out to be unacceptable for the parliament. The first principles of the arrangement were removed from the draft constitution, and then the form of
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vetoed the amendments and returned the draft bill to the Parliament with his objections, but the Parliament overrode the veto and approved the initial version on 13 October. Further amendments, incorporating several
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adopted the Constitution of Georgia by 159 votes to 8. On September 17, 1995, members of the State Constitutional Commission and the Parliament of Georgia signed the official text of the Constitution at the
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on 24 August 1995 and entered into force on 17 October 1995. The Constitution replaced the Decree on State Power of November 1992 which had functioned as an interim basic law following the
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was established. The restored constitution of 1921 suffered the same fate as its adoption - it did not actually take effect on any day because it was out of step with modernity and time.
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was elected as the secretary of the commission. The Constitutional Commission included members of the parliament, lawyers, economists, historians, the President and academicians of the
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Agricultural land is a ‘resource of exceptional significance’ and can be owned only by ‘the state, a self-governing entity, a citizen of Georgia, or a union of Georgian citizens’.
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is a unicameral legislature. The Constitution envisages, following the full restoration of Georgia's jurisdiction throughout the entire territory of Georgia (including breakaway
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and began drafting the Constitution. The drafting of the constitution lasted for three years. On February 21, 1921, facing the onset of Soviet aggression, the
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adopted a resolution on the establishment of the State Constitutional Commission of Georgia and the approval of its Statute. On the basis of this statute,
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of the country and the state was renamed "Republic of Georgia", state symbols were changed, the leading role of the Communist Party was abolished and
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The history of Georgian constitutionalism begins in the twentieth century, when on May 26, 1918, the
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and the Head of State, was elected as the Chairman of the State Constitutional Commission. Prof.
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Define marriage as "a union between a woman and a man for the purpose of creating a family.”
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The attempt to remove the constitutional status of Georgian SSR in 1978 caused a major
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fully proportional parliamentary representation in 2024. On October 9, President
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The members of State Constitutional Commission and Parliament of Georgia
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submitted to the Parliament a proposal to establish a
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