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EUROPEAN VALUES WERE PRESENT IN KARABAKH, 1,500 YEARS AGO - NEWSPAPER
news.am, Armenia
Nov 2 2011
YEREVAN. - Preaching European values in Armenia has become
new-fashioned in recent years. But experience has shown that those
preachers simply are not aware of the political and juridical heritage
of their own people, Azg daily writes.
By the initiative of King Vachagan Barepasht ("the Pious") of Karabakh
(Artsakh) and Utik, a Constitution was adopted 1,500 years ago,
in the early 500s, whose rewritten version, which was prepared
in 1288, is still kept at Armenian capital Yerevan's Matenadaran
(Armenian ancient manuscript museum). At the initial phase, the draft
Constitution was sent to different dwelling areas, where meetings and
discussions were held, the people gave their consent, and subsequently
the King convened a large national congress, and only after which
the Constitution was adopted through a referendum. At the same time,
the congress was chaired by a rank-and-file soldier. These methods
emerged in Europe 800-1,000 years later.
The First Armenian Constitution is the most vivid example of the
fact that, if the natural development of our (Armenian) statehood
had not been interrupted by 600-700 years, perhaps we would have
been the locomotive of those values which today are the foundations
of western democracy.
From: A. Papazian
news.am, Armenia
Nov 2 2011
YEREVAN. - Preaching European values in Armenia has become
new-fashioned in recent years. But experience has shown that those
preachers simply are not aware of the political and juridical heritage
of their own people, Azg daily writes.
By the initiative of King Vachagan Barepasht ("the Pious") of Karabakh
(Artsakh) and Utik, a Constitution was adopted 1,500 years ago,
in the early 500s, whose rewritten version, which was prepared
in 1288, is still kept at Armenian capital Yerevan's Matenadaran
(Armenian ancient manuscript museum). At the initial phase, the draft
Constitution was sent to different dwelling areas, where meetings and
discussions were held, the people gave their consent, and subsequently
the King convened a large national congress, and only after which
the Constitution was adopted through a referendum. At the same time,
the congress was chaired by a rank-and-file soldier. These methods
emerged in Europe 800-1,000 years later.
The First Armenian Constitution is the most vivid example of the
fact that, if the natural development of our (Armenian) statehood
had not been interrupted by 600-700 years, perhaps we would have
been the locomotive of those values which today are the foundations
of western democracy.
From: A. Papazian