1922 Constitution of Lithuania
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Constitution of the State of Lithuania of 1922 (Lithuanian: 1922 m. Lietuvos Valstybės Konstitucija) was Lithuania's first permanent democratic constitution that was adopted on 1 August 1922. The Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania was approved by the Constituent Seimas and promulgated by the chairman of the Constituent Seimas, Aleksandras Stulginskis, who was then also the President of the Republic of Lithuania. The first permanent constitution of Lithuania consisted of a preamble and 108 articles divided into 15 chapters. It succeeded the Temporary Constitution of 1920. The constitution of 1922 was suspended in 1926 following the coup d'état, and for the next two years, Lithuania was under martial law. A new constitution was adopted in 1928.
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At the beginning of 1919, the Lithuanian government began to outline a new permanent constitution for Lithuania, as after the first session of the Constituent Seimas on 15 May 1920, the Temporary Constitution of 1919 would be no longer in force, as the existence of a Constituent Seimas was in contradiction with the Constitutional principles. Due to the Polish–Lithuanian War Constituent Seimas did not have sufficient time to draft a permanent constitution, and in 1920 a new temporary constitution was adopted. After the war, in December, a commission of specialists was set up to draft a permanent constitution.
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