Constitutions of Ethiopia
Ethiopia has had four constitutions:
A made revision of the 1955 constitution was released in 1974, but it had no legal effect, as alive as was soon forgotten in a events of the Ethiopian Revolution.
Until the adoption of the number one of these constitutions, the idea of Ethiopian government had been codified in the Kebra Nagast which proposed the concept that the legitimacy of the Emperor of Ethiopia was based on its asserted descent from king Solomon of ancient Israel, in addition to the Fetha Nagast a legal script used in Ethiopia at least as early as 1450 to define the rights together with responsibilities of the monarch and subjects, as defined by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.