Re: Greek Royal house law of 1438/1887
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Concerning the King
Art. 29. The person of the King is irresponsible and inviolable; his
Ministers are responsible.
Art. 30. No act of the King is valid, nor is it executed, if it be not
countersigned by the competent Minister, who is rendered responsible by
his signature alone; in case of a change of the whole Ministry, if no
one of the retiring Ministers consent to countersign the decrees
dismissing the old and appointing the new Ministry, these are signed by
the President of the new Ministry after taking the oath on appointment
by the King.
Art. 31. The King appoints and dismisses his Ministers.
Art. 32. The King is the highest authority of the State. He commands
the land and sea forces, declares war, concludes treaties of peace,
alliance, and commerce, and communicates them to the House of
Representatives with the necessary explanations as soon as the interest
and the security of the State allow it. Nevertheless, treaties of
commerce and any others granting concessions concerning which according
to other provisions of the present Constitution nothing can be
determined without a law, or which lay a burden upon Greeks personally,
are not valid without the consent of the House of Representatives.
Art. 33. No cession or exchange of territory can take place without a
law. The secret Articles of a Treaty can never subvert the open
Articles.
Art. 34. The King confers military and naval rank in accordance with
the law; he appoints and dismisses public officials also according to
law, saving the exceptions determined by law, but he cannot appoint an
official to an office not (already) established by law.
Art. 35. The King issues the decrees necessary for the execution of the
laws; but he can never delay the operation of the law, nor except
anyone from the execution of the same.
Art. 36. The King sanctions and publishes the laws voted by the House
of Representatives. A law not published within two months of the
conclusion is null.
Art. 37. The King convokes the House of Representatives in ordinary
session once a year, and in extraordinary session as often as he deems
expedient; he opens and closes each session either in person or by
deputy, and he has the right of dissolving the House of
Representatives; but the decree of dissolution countersigned by the
Ministry, must at the same time include the convocation of the electors
within forty-five days, and of the House of Representatives within
three months.
Art. 38. The King has the right, once only, to suspend the labours of a
legislative session, either by postponing the opening or by
interrupting the continuance of those labours.
The suspension cannot exceed thirty days, nor can it be renewed during
the session without the consent of the House.
Art. 39. The King has the right to pardon, commute, and diminish the
punishments awarded by the Courts of Law, saving in the case of the
provisions concerning Ministers; he has, moreover, the right to grant
amnesty only in the case of political crimes under the responsibility
of the Ministry.
Art. 40. The King has the right to confer the established decorations
in accordance with the provisions of the law relative to this subject.
Art. 41. The King has the right to coin money according to the law.
Art. 42. The Royal Civil List is fixed by law; the annual Civil List of
King George I, in which is included the sum voted by the late Ionian
Parliament, is fixed at 1,125,000 drachmas. This amount may be
increased after ten years by a law.
Art. 43. King George, after signing the present Constitution, will take
the following oath before the present National Assembly: -
«I swear in the name of the Holy, Consubstantial, and Indivisible
Trinity to defend the established religion of the Greeks, to guard the
Constitution and laws of the Greek nation, and to preserve and protect
the national independence and integrity of the Greek State.»
Art. 44. The King has no other powers than those expressly assigned to
him by the Constitution, and the special laws consistent with it.
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Concerning Succession and Regency
Art. 45. The Greek Grown and its constitutional rights are hereditary,
and pass to the legitimate and lawful descendants of King George I in
direct line by order of primogeniture, preference being given to the
males.
Art. 46. If no successor exist in accordance with the above
stipulations, the King appoints one with the consent of the House of
Representatives, convoked for the purpose (and deciding) by the vote of
two-thirds of the total number of representatives, and by open voting.
Art. 47. Every successor to the Greek Throne must profess the religion
of the Eastern Orthodox Church of Christ.
Art. 48. The Crowns of Greece and of any other State whatever can never
be united on the same head.
Art. 49. The King attains his majority on completing the 18th year of
his age. Before ascending the Throne he takes the oath comprised in
Article 43, in the presence of the Ministers, of the Holy Synod, of the
representatives (present) in the capital, and of the other higher
authorities. The King convokes the House of Representatives within two
months at the most, and repeats the oath before the representatives.
Art. 50. In case of the King's death, if the successor be a minor or
absent, and there be no Regent already appointed, the House of
Representatives, even if its term have expired or it have been
dissolved, assembles without summons on the tenth day at latest after
the King's death. The Royal constitutional power is exercised by the
Ministerial Council, under its own responsibility, until the Regent
have taken the oath or the successor have arrived. A special law will
regulate the details concerning the regency.
Art. 51. If, when the King dies, his successor be a minor, the House of
Representatives, even if its term have expired or it have been
dissolved, assembles to choose a guardian; but a guardian is only
chosen when none such is named in the will of the deceased king, or
when the infant successor has not a mother remaining in her widowhood,
who is then called as of right to the guardianship of her child. The
guardian of the infant King, whether appointed by will or chosen by the
House of Representatives, must be a Greek citizen of the Eastern faith.
Art. 52. In case of a vacancy of the Throne, the House of
Representatives, even if its term have expired or it have been
dissolved, provisionally elects a Greek citizen of the Eastern faith as
Regent, and the Ministerial Council exercises, under its own
responsibility, the Royal constitutional power in the name of the
nation until the Regent have taken the oath; within two months at the
latest, representatives equal in number to the members of the House are
elected by the citizens, and these, meeting in one body with the House
of Representatives, choose a King by a majority of two-thirds of the
whole number, and by open voting.
Art. 53. If the King, owing to sickness, deem necessary the
establishment of a regency, he convokes the Chamber with this object,
and invites through the Ministry (the passing of) a special law to this
effect. If the King is not in a state to reign, the Ministerial Council
convokes the House of Representatives, and the House when it meets, if
it recognizes the necessity, by a majority of three-fourths of the
votes, chooses a Regent and, if necessary, a guardian, by open voting.
A special law will settle the details concerning the regency in case of
the absence of the King from the kingdom.
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