Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Official propagandists from Athens are briskly at work in all the larger cities and villages, extolling the virtues of the constitution at staged mass meetings.
The speaker, Stylianos Patakos, Minister of the Interior and one of the leaders of the regime, asked the crowd at one point if anyone wanted to vote "No" to reject the constitution. Complete silence. "You know, it would help us if you voted No," the speaker said. "Then we would...
The junta is thus trying to extract a big vote for the constitution with the positive stimulus of their propaganda barrage. They are also using the negative idea, which is really a thinly-disguised threat, that a "No" vote would result in a stricter alternative. The ruling clique is suppressing...
PERSONAL liberties seem to be guaranteed under the new constitution but a close reading reveals several disturbing aspects. All individuals and communications media have complete freedom of speech except that they may not speak out against "the existing social order," i.e., the junta. What it means to "speak out" is...
All labor strikes will be outlawed. The junta repeatedly uses the rhetoric of saving the Greek Christian Civilization from the old days when workers were constantly on strike and students were always throwing stones. The constitution restricts unions from organizing against the interests of the existing social order. It's...