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The First Republic of Armenia's Secret Constitution
In May 1918, as Ottoman forces closed in on Yerevan, a hastily assembled Armenian National Council declared independence in a dusty Tiflis apartment. But the First Republic of Armenia — born at Sardarabad — had no written constitution, no codified laws, and barely a functioning government. This episode traces the frantic months between Sardarabad and the drafting of Armenia's first constitutional framework in 1919, a document that borrowed from the Swiss federal model, the French Third Republic, and the peculiar realities of a tiny, blockaded Caucasus state. We explore the debates at the…
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