The first constitution in the history of Georgia was adopted on this day 100 years ago. The currently applied constitution of 1995, in its preamble, directly refers to the 1921 constitution and its historical-legal heritage. The Constitutional Court of Georgia has referred to the 1921 constitution in a number of cases when explaining the content of fundamental rights.

Although due to the Soviet occupation of Georgia, the 1921 constitution could not be effectively applied, its importance is great in the history of the democratic state of Georgia. It can be unequivocally said that the authors of the 1921 Constitution created a legal document that distinguished itself as consistent and individual among the constitutions of the post-World War I period.

This document of the legislator of independent Georgia can be unequivocally considered as one of the most advanced, progressive and human rights-oriented supreme legislative acts of the world at the beginning of the 20^th century. The 1921 constitution reflects the most progressive legal and political views and currents of Western Europe that were newly formed or were existing only in theory in that period: parliamentary system, constitutional prohibition of the death penalty, freedom of speech, universal suffrage (including the equal right of women and men to vote, which was rare in that period), constitutional legalization of the institution of jury, the so-called Habeas corpus and many others, the progressiveness of which made the constitution distinguished not only among the then but modern European constitutions.

The 1921 constitution proves that human rights are not foreign, "external standards” imposed on Georgia. They are the declared choice of the citizens of Georgia, which our ancestors made into a constitution a century ago. It is the duty of all of us to make the proper protection of human rights a daily reality and thus strengthen our statehood and independence.