With the drafting of a new constitution.. this is the story of the constitutions of Syria since 1920

The war in Syria has not yet ended, and Bashar al-Assad’s regime continues to target civilians in the northern Syrian regions, and the soldiers of foreign countries have not left their lands, and not a single truce over eight years has been able to extinguish its burning fire following a popular revolution demanding freedom, dignity and state-building. A civilian based on a constitution by which it governs.

While major and regional countries gather through the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the Syrian parties; From the regime, the opposition, and civil society (calculated on both sides), to write a new constitution for a country, and the accused of war crimes participates with the representatives of the victims in weaving its letters, doors and general principles.

Since the birth of the Syrian state, in the twenties of the last century until 2012, about 16 constitutions were formed in it, during various political eras, many international changes, and the rise and fall of other alliances.

Syria’s constitutions until the Ba’ath coup

After Syria separated from the Ottoman Empire in the wake of what was called the “Great Arab Revolt”, the Kingdom of Syria was established in 1920, and King Faisal bin Sharif Hussein ruled and wrote its first constitutions, but it did not last long, as the French forces came to occupy Syria and Lebanon (of which she was a part).

But the French occupation disrupted the “1920 constitution” after a short period, when it formed a constitutional committee to prepare a new constitution, known as the “1928 constitution”.

The new constitution was not well suited to France’s domestic policy in Syria, which rejected it; Due to the presence of articles that conflict with its mandate in the country, what prompted it to amend it with another one, which is the “Constitution of 1930”, which gave wide powers to the House of Representatives, guaranteeing freedoms, and a separation of powers.

In 1946, France evacuated Syria after drawing its new features, and the evacuation government adopted the 1928 constitution as the country’s constitution and ruled according to it, which stipulated that “Syria is a representative republic, the religion of its president is Islam, and its capital is the city of Damascus.”

In 1947, the constitution was amended to transform the electoral system from two degrees to one, and it was amended again in 1948 to allow Shukri al-Quwatli to be elected for a second term immediately after his first term. Soon, Sami Al-Hinawi turned against him in August 1949, and elections for a Constituent Assembly (in which women participated for the first time) were organized to draft a new constitution for the country.