Constitution of Lebanon
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The 'Constitution of Lebanon' was adopted on 23 May 1926.
The most recent amending of the Constitution was for the Charter of Lebanese National Reconciliation (Ta'if Accord), in October, 1989.
Lebanese are mostly split between Christians and Muslims, the Lebanese constitution mandates that its president must be a Christian of the Maronite sect which is the largest Christian sect of the country (at the time of the writing of the constitution, Christians were 51% of the population and Maronites were the country's largest sect at 29-30% of the population). On the other hand the Prime Minister is always a Sunni Muslim (at the time Muslims made up around 43% of the country's population excluding the Druzes who were around 6%. The second largest sect in the country and largest Muslim sect were Sunnis at around 20-21%). In the last 63 years since the constitution was written it is believed that Muslims have risen from 43% to around 60% again not including the Druzes. The Shiite Muslims are now the largest Muslim sect and the country's largest sect overall at around 35% (at the time of the constitution's formulation; 18-19%).
The constitution describes the flag of Lebanon. The original version of Article 5 read "The Lebanese flag is blue, white, red with a cedar in the white part". A change made on 7 December 1943 indicated that "The Lebanese flag is made of red, white and red horizontal stripes, with the cedar in green in the centre of the white stripe". Some flag manufacturers have created a more conventional looking tree, with a brown trunk. Some allege that this is unconstitutional. [1]
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