Book contents
- Liberalism after the Revolution
- Ideas In Context
- Liberalism after the Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Mind the Legal Gap
- Chapter 2 ‘Romanist’ Jurisprudence
- Chapter 3 ‘It’s More Than Economics, Stupid’
- Chapter 4 ‘Let’s Talk about the Nation and the State’
- Chapter 5 The Law of Nations, Sovereignty and the International Autonomy of the Greek State
- Chapter 6 Ideas into Practice
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Ideas into Practice
The ‘Lawful’ Revolution and the Building of a New Constitutional Order (1860s–1870s)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022
- Liberalism after the Revolution
- Ideas In Context
- Liberalism after the Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Mind the Legal Gap
- Chapter 2 ‘Romanist’ Jurisprudence
- Chapter 3 ‘It’s More Than Economics, Stupid’
- Chapter 4 ‘Let’s Talk about the Nation and the State’
- Chapter 5 The Law of Nations, Sovereignty and the International Autonomy of the Greek State
- Chapter 6 Ideas into Practice
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores and interprets the long revolution of the 1860s (1862–1875): a ‘context-breaking liberal moment’ that featured a revolution, a Constituent Assembly, a change of dynasty, a new constitutional system and a crisis over defining the scope of parliamentary jurisdiction. During and after this moment political institutions were reconfigured and the monarchy was put on a new institutional footing. In short, the way of ‘doing’ politics was radically transformed. By paying due attention to ideas as drivers of political change and to the role of the jurists in forming these ideas, the chapter demonstrates that what ultimately made this crisis a legitimacy crisis – and indeed, gave the revolution its language – was the way in which the king’s rule increasingly came to be seen as a de facto usurpation of power that had unsettled the balance of the constitution and was breaking the contract with the nation. In other words, the critics of the monarchy were essentially building on the moderate liberal ideas that had developed in the preceding years.
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- Liberalism after the RevolutionThe Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830–1880, pp. 194 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022