ABSTRACT
The Kingdom of Greece which emerged in 1832 through the intervention of the ‘protecting powers’, as England, France, and Russia were officially called, was an absolute monarchy in complete contrast to what the people themselves desired or the legal texts drafted during the revolutionary period showed. In 1968 the military regime, anxious to appear hastening the return to legality, submitted a new constitutional text to the Greek people who ‘voted’ for it in a referendum which was nothing more than a farce. The new Constitution is, nevertheless, strongly reminiscent of its predecesors trying to combine the best of what was (the 1952 Constitution) and what was learned from the experiences of the middle sixties’ turbulances and of the dictatorship. The major characteristics of the Constitution were: the strengthening of the government; its social character; its almost ‘socialist’ inclination on certain issues.
