ACT of
The Georgian National Council during its
plenary sitting of May 26. 1918, declared as follows:
For several centuries
At the end eighteenth century
In the course of the great
Russian revolution conditions arose which resulted in the disorganization of
the entire military front and the abandonment of
Thus, left to her own devices, Georgia, and
with her all Transcaucasia, took into their hands the
direction of their affairs creating the necessary organs for this purpose; but
under pressure from exterior forces the links which united Transcaucasian
nationalities were broken and the political unity of Transcaucasia
was thus dissolved.
The present position of the Georgian people
makes it imperatively necessary that
Accordingly, the Georgian National Council,
elected by the National Assembly of Georgia on November 22 (December), 1917,
declares:
(1) In future the Georgian people will hold
sovereign power and
(2) Independent Georgia’s form of political
organization will be Democratic Republic.
(3) In the event of international conflict
(4) The Georgian Democratic Republic will apply
itself to establishing friendly relations with all nations and especially with neighbouring nationalities and states.
(5) The Democratic Georgian republic offers to
all inhabitants of her territory a wide field for free development.
(6) The Democratic
(7) Until the convocation of the constituent
assembly, the National Council, with the addition of representatives of the
minorities and the provisional government responsible to the National Council,
is at the head of all Georgian administration.
(Democratic