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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article looks at the Iranian Constitution of 1906 and its Supplement of 1907 in terms of the existing trend towards the centralization and strengthening of the state, looking in detail at the role of the reformist higher bureaucracy in pursuing these objectives in the drafting of the Constitution. It also considers the question of the long term trend relating to control of power in the form of the army, and the way the issue was handled in the two documents. It concludes that the rights of the people were weakened by these particular trends, and that modern principles of legitimacy recognized traditional practice with regard to the army, and thereby also undermined accountability.
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