This book - drawn up by a constitutional law expert and a historian - examines the great pressures of modern Greek constitutional history. Following the necessary introduction to the Greek constitutions of the modern era, it focuses on the era of the "crisis of institutions" (1915-1974), defined by the two successive divisions of the Greek 20th century, the National Split and the civil war, with the disintegrating ones. Their impact on the institutional history of the country the book is not limited to recording the burdens imposed by the two divisions on the political scene, political culture and the legal system. In addition it addresses its incomplete and complex implementation of the Constitution during their. Thus, it examines the role of the Constitution in the eruption of National Dissent, the failure of politics that resulted in the dictatorships of 1936 and 1967, the functioning of institutions after the civil war, the role of political forces and the Palace. However, the book also deals with the conditions for overcoming the "crisis of institutions" achieved during the 1974-75 transition. It thus values not only the institutional initiatives, but also the spiritual prerequisites for success at the institutional level, namely the cosmopolitanism that supported that crucial effort and the establishment of an established democracy.
