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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Siences, Alameh Tabatabai University

Abstract

 Constitutional revolution of Iran could be considered as a kind of collective action for legitimizing different model of seizing and exercising political power by redefining it. By this revolution, political power redefined as collective property that must be employed to enhance Iranians social conditions. Alternatively, through this collective action, Iranians provided different answers to questions on nature and importance of political power. Based on these answers (articulated in some articles of the Constitution), a democratic political order institutionalized and legitimized.

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