Othoman constitution of 1876
The Othoman constitution of 1876 is the first written Constitution Ottoman Empire.
Abdülhamid II instructed a commission with 31 people, which included/understood three Christians, to be harnessed with the drafting of the first constitution of the country. It is coming into effect in 1876 inaugurating the Constitutional monarchy wanted by the reformers Turkish. It was a rather liberal constitution which weakened considerably the Sultanat in favor of the elected Parliament. Parliament composed of two assemblies, that of the deputies elected by the people, and that of the senators appointed by the sultan. The sessions were democratic and the members of Parliament did not deprive themselves to criticize the sultan. The Parliament was suspended at the time of the Russo-Turkish Guerre of 1877 - 1878, because of virulent criticisms whose the sultan was victim. The Constitution entered again into force, following the revolution Young person-Turks of the July 24th 1908.
It was replaced by the Constitution of 1921, worked out by the government of Ankara.
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