The Third

Greek National Assembly The Greek national assemblies ( el, Εθνοσυνελεύσεις) are representative bodies of the Greek people. During and in the direct aftermath of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), the name was used for the insurgents' proto-parli ...

Troezen Troezen (; ancient Greek: Τροιζήν, modern Greek: Τροιζήνα ) is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the munic ...

( el, Γʹ Εθνοσυνέλευση της Τροιζήνας) was convened during the latter stages of the

Greek Revolution The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. The Greeks were later assisted by ...

Convening of the Assembly

The long-delayed Third National Assembly was initially convened in April 1826 at Piada, but cut short by the news of the Fall of Missolonghi. Attempts to arrange a new Assembly in the autumn also failed due to disagreements among the various factions. Instead, two rival assemblies were established at

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and Kastri. Finally, after much deliberation, all parties agreed to participate in an assembly at Troezen. 168 delegates assembled there on 19 March 1827, under the chairmanship of

Georgios Sisinis Georgios Sisinis ( el, Γεώργιος Σισίνης, 1769–1831) was a Greek revolutionary leader and politician of the Greek War of Independence. Biography He was born in Gastouni in Elis, to a rich and historic family of the area. Georgios, ...

Election of Capodistrias

The 1827 Troezen Resolution on the election of Ioannis Kapodistrias as Governor of Greece

Having suffered from internal dissensions, the Assembly decided to create a supreme post to preside over the Executive, creating thus the office of ''Governor of Greece'', to which it elected the then most distinguished Greek, Count

Ioannis Kapodistrias Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias (10 or 11 February 1776 – 9 October 1831), sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias ( el, Κόμης Ιωάννης Αντώνιος Καποδίστριας, Komis Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias; russian: � ...

, for a seven-year term, on April 3. A Governmental Commission was set up to administer Greece until his arrival.

The new Constitution

On 1 May, the Assembly approved by vote of the '' Political Constitution of Greece''. For the first time, the Constitution was not labeled "Provisional", signaling the Greek aspirations for complete independence from the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

. This Constitution consisted of 150 articles. It established key principles in Greek Constitutional history which remain to this day, such as the statement "''Sovereignty lies with the people; every power derives from the people and exists for the people''". It established a strict

separation of powers Separation of powers refers to the division of a state's government into branches, each with separate, independent powers and responsibilities, so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with those of the other branches. The typic ...

, vesting the executive power to the Governor and assigning to the body of the representatives of the people, named Boule, the legislative power. The Governor only had a suspending veto on the bills, and lacked the right to dissolve the Parliament. He was ''inviolable'', while the ''Secretaries of the State'', in other words the Ministers, assumed the responsibility for his public actions (thus introducing into the text of the 1827 Constitution the first elements of the so-called ''parliamentary principle''). On 4 May 1827, a day before its dissolution, the Assembly also voted for establishing

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as the capital of Greece and seat of both parliament and government. 1827 in Greece

3rd Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * Second#Sexagesimal divisions of calendar time and day, 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (d ...

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