Resumen de Constitutional change in Greece

Xenophon Contiades, Ioannis A. Tassopoulos

• Since the fi rst Revolutionary Constitutions in the early nineteenth century, all Greek Constitutions have been written, generally recognized to be the supreme law, and diffi cult to amend. Nevertheless, the provisions regarding constitutional revision, though not ignored or rejected in principle, were never fully respected until the current Constitution of 1975 was enacted. This was primarily for two reasons: either the procedural and material limits were so demanding that they rendered necessary constitutional changes unfeasible unless such limits were breached, or constitutional changes resulted from serious political crises that were, in most cases, followed by changes in the form of government, alternating between crowned parliamentary government and the republic.