The authority of the president in the successive regimes in Iraq in the time - span 1920-2003

Abstract

Abstract The success of the system of government in any country needs to have a handle on the amount of power efficiency , capacity , capability and wisdom, Iraq has gone through since its inception through several stages of time, namely: The first stage: which ran from August 23, 1921 until July 14, 1958 and was ruling monarchy (rule of the royal family) and punishing power of political elites both of them and works access to power without taking into consideration the laws and principles of the Constitution, and as a result of the inability of civilian powers and political parties access to power to grant that army officers regulatory and disciplinary specifications as well as possessing arms and overthrow the rule of the minority coup. The second stage: the era of absolute monarchy turned into a Republican in the July 14, 1958, which came to change the system and the removal of the royal government led by (the organization of the Free Officers). But the struggle for power by the military commanders and intense rivalry that both of them tried to impose his grip on power so it was survival of the fittest The third stage: As a result of the previous conditions have been coups February 8, 1963 as the orientations of the leaders and their goals have changed as consistent with the interests and positions of power. The fourth stage: is the stage of the Fourth Republic after the coup, July 17, 1968 and handed power by the Baath white coup on July 16 in 1979-9 April 2003. And characterized all these previous periods of the existence of temporary constitutions and political instability and failed republican systems in the transfer of Iraq to a state of institutions based on constitutional grounds.