The Greek Constitution of 1822, a document…
January 1822 CE
Formally the Provisional Regime of Greece sometimes translated as Temporary Constitution of Greece, it replaces a number of texts that had been passed by local revolutionary committees, such as the Senate Organization of Western Greece, the Legal Order of Eastern Greece and the Peloponnesian Senate Organization.
These committees had formed the previous year, which had seen the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence.
The Constitution is mainly the work of the Italian Vincenzo Gallina and deliberately avoids the liberal and democratic principles of the French revolutionary constitutions of 1793 and 1795, as well as the 1787 constitution of the United States of America.
This has been done in order to not alarm the Holy Alliance.
For the same reason, there is no reference in the Constitution to the Filiki Eteria.
As far as the formation of two organs of the administration is concerned, a multi-central model is adopted with the composition of two annual bodies (deliberative and executive), whose duties are not clearly defined and separated.
This declaration takes the official form of a constitutional text; this is the Constitution of Epidauros, the first constitution in the modern history of Greece.