Re: Greek Royal house law of 1438/1887


royalfamily wrote:
> http://www.geocities.com/dagtho/grconst19110614.html
>
> 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.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.

I believe that is the constitution, not the Greek house law of 1887.

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