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The constitution is regarded as liberal and democratic, although it represented a compromise between the military leaders of the Revolution and the landowners, who dominated the First National Assembly. The creation of an executive and a legislature displays the desire of these two power centres to
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maintain a political balance. The constitutional equivalence between the legislature and the executive reflects the suspiciousness among the members of the National Assembly and resulted in the
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As far as the formation of two organs of the administration is concerned, a multi-central model was adopted with the composition of two annual bodies (
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of the law-making procedure. In any case, the needs and the difficulties of the revolution impeded the full implementation of the Constitution.
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Part I dealt with the religious and civil rights of the Greeks and ruled on the predominance of the
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It replaced a number of texts which had been passed by local revolutionary committees, such as the
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First constitution of modern Greece, adopted during the Greek War of Independence
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Introduction of the Greek Constitutional History-Volume I (in Greek)
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The constitution was divided into four parts and 109 articles:
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All the indigenous inhabitants of the Greek Territory who
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Scanned original of the 1822 Constitution (in Greek)
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Politics of Greece

Constitution
Constitutional history
Human rights
Executive
President of the Republic
list
Katerina Sakellaropoulou
Presidential Departments
Government
Prime Minister
list
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Cabinet
Kyr. Mitsotakis II
Legislature
Speaker
Konstantinos Tasoulas
Presidium
Conference of Presidents
Parliamentary committees
Constituencies
Apportionment
Judiciary
Special Highest Court
Court of Cassation
Council of State
Chamber of Accounts

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