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E-book The Constitution of Greece
By the year 2023 the Constitution of 1975 will turn out to
be the most long-lived Constitution that the Country
has known, having surpassed in longevity the Constitution
of 1864, which remained in force for 47 years.
Under the institutional and political framework established by the Constitution of 1975, a Constitution which
bears the mark of Konstantinos Karamanlis, Konstantinos
Tsatsos and Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, our Country
has witnessed its longest and most stable period of democratic governance, considering its otherwise tumultuous
constitutional history. This fact alone highlights the normative value of the current Constitution, but also the need to
defend its central characteristics in order to further
strengthen our Democracy. It also highlights the direction
which the rigid process of its revision must follow, so as not
to damage its unique institutional and political character.
On the other hand, this same Constitution is always ready
to take us by surprise with its regulative reserves, which
await for their legislative and administrative materialization.
In addressing the Parliament on June 7th 1975 (the day of
the Constitution’s voting) Constantine Tsatsos, the president
of the Constitutional Committee, offered the following description: «I would like you finally to consider the greekness
of the Constitution. We have learnt a lot from many. We have
learnt but we have not imitated anyone. This Constitution
sprung from the Greek spirit, it was built by the Greek measure and is dedicated to the Greek Nation
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