ABSTRACT
The author had been inspired by the much discussed Resolution II of the National Assembly of 1844 which denied certain groups of naturalised Greek citizens, who had not been born in the Greek Kingdom, the right to become public servants for a certain period of time. In reality, however, laws are shaped by state policies in relation to the type and character of its national community. Greek legislators sought the basis on which to organise the institutions of their emergent country without exception in foreign legislative models of the period. The groups of citizens, registered either by locality or on the basis of permanent residence on Greek territory, or alternatively on the grounds of their ethnic descent, reflected the phases in the historical development of the Greek nation in which the state was recognised from the outset to be smaller in terms of territorial extent than its leaders had hoped for.
