The Role and Impact of the Bazaar of Tehran on the First Constitutional Parliament


  •  Hamid HajianPour    
  •  Mehdi Khaksarkahangi    

Abstract

According to the Iranian Constitutional Constitution, the parliament was considered as the foundation of Constitutionalism and was supposed to realize the most important goal of the Constitutionalists, namely controlling the absolute power of the Shah through defining a recognized law and supervising its enforcement. Such a process took place in Iran and Constitutional Revolution was a product of it. The present paper is trying to investigate the role and impacts of Tehran’s Bazaar (market) on the first Constitutionalist parliament. In doing so, after fully describing the context of the study, the required data is gathered through descriptive – analytical approach. The findings of this study show that members of the Tehran’s Bazaar is in line with the different social groups, by pressuring the Shah of Iran forced him to acknowledge their demands and played a considerable role in establishing the first Constitutional parliament of the country.


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