The National Constitution of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, dated March 17, 1863, as an attempt to the restoration of Armenian statehood

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Abstract

In article the author, by examining the text of historical and legal monument of the Armenian people, shows the attempts of the Turkish Armenians to establish the spiritual and legal foundations of a true national legal consciousness, constitutional legislation, and state building. This constitutional draft left a significant and fruitful mark in the history of the general and state-legal development of the entire Armenian-Christian people, since it contained such legislatively established and important law-enforcement and lawful ideas, essences, values, and goals, as the interconnectedness of the necessary personal rights and duties, responsibility of the individual and the nation, the preservation of the purity of the Christian faith, conscientious concern for the development of spiritual, moral, intellectual and cultural level, as well as material-technical well-being of entire Armenian people.

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Boris A. Osipian

Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

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Email: artos5@mail.ru

Candidate of Law, Associate Professor; senior researcher at the Department of Constitutional Law

Russian Federation, Moscow

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