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The current Constitution of Portugal was adopted in 1976 after the Carnation Revolution.[1]
Constitution of the Portuguese Republic | |
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Overview | |
Jurisdiction | Portugal |
Ratified | 2 April 1976 |
Date effective | 25 April 1976 |
System | Semi-presidential |
Government structure | |
Branches | 4 |
Head of state | President with significant reserve powers |
Chambers | Unicameral (Assembly of the Republic) |
Executive | Government, headed by a Prime Minister |
Judiciary | Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Justice and lower general courts, Supreme Administrative Court and lower administrative courts and Court of Auditors |
Federalism | Unitary state, but the outermost archipelagoes enjoy self-government |
Electoral college | No |
Entrenchments | 15 (14 material ones and a circumstantial one) |
History | |
First legislature | 3 June 1976 |
First executive | 23 July 1976 |
Amendments | 7 |
Last amended | 2005 |
Author(s) | Constituent Assembly of Portugal |
Signatories | Henrique de Barros and Francisco da Costa Gomes |
Supersedes | Portuguese Constitution of 1933 |
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