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Armenia's First Constitution: A Lost Experiment in Democracy
Long before the First Republic of Armenia's secret constitution of 1918, there was the 1773 'Snare of Glory' — the first ever Armenian constitution, drafted in the diaspora by a wealthy merchant named Shahamir Shahamirian. This episode explores Shahamirian's radical vision for a democratic, representative Armenian state, an idealistic blueprint that would have established a parliament, a bill of rights, and even term limits for a Catholicos-president. We follow the document's strange journey from Madras, India, to Venice, where it influenced the Mkhitarist monks, and…
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