National constitution (Ldl lesson)

1. What is Constitution?
Constitution has to do
with
established rules
according to which
the state is
organized

2. National Constitution
of Greece

3. The Greek Government
• The form of the Greek government is that of a
parliamentary republic.
• All powers come from the People and exist for
the People and the Nation; they shall be
exercised as stated by the Constitution.

4. The three Functions of the State
• The legislative powers shall be exercised by
the Parliament and the Presidents of the
Republic.
• The executive powers shall be exercised by
the President of the Republic and the
Government.
• 3. The judicial powers shall be exercised by
courts of law, the decisions of which shall be
executed in the name of the Greek People.

5. Constitutional History
• In July 1974 Greece came out of the seven years
long dictatorship which had halted its overall
development in all aspects.
• Once democracy was reinstated in Greece in July
1974, the National Unity government of C.
Karamanlis, set forth to strengthen the rule of
democracy and erase the traumatic experiences
of the civil war and the dictatorship.

6. Constantinos Karamanlis signs the 1975
Constitution of Greece

7. The Constitution of 1975
was created by the principles of
• the law and the welfare state.
• the respect to the value of man as the primary
obligation of the state.
• the arrangement of a normal political life
based on the values of parliamentary republic.

8. Context of the constitution
The Constitution consists of 120 articles and it is
set out in 4 parts:
•The first part (articles 1-3), establishes the form
of the Greek government.
•The second part (articles 4-25) concerns
individual and social rights.

9. • The third part (articles 26-105) describes the
organization and function of the State.
• The fourth part (articles 106-120) covers
special, final and temporary necessities.

10. The Greek Parliament

11. The members of the Parliament
The Parliament is the supreme democratic
institution that represents the citizens through
an elected body of Members of Parliament.
In the current composition the Parliament
consists of 300 elected members.

12. Inside the Parliament

13. If we want to protect our human
rights…
We must
have
Constitution!