Constitution of Malta |This article is part of the series:
Politics and government of The current Constitution of Malta was
adopted as a legal order on September 21, 1964, and is the self-
declared supreme law of the land. Therefore, any law or action
in violation of the Constitution is null and void. Being a rigid
constitution, it has a three-tier entrenchment basis in order
for any amendments to take place. Constitutional Development
since Independence  The Constitution has been amended twenty-
four times, most recently in 2007 with the entrenchment of the
office of the Ombudsman. The constitution is typically called
the Constitution of Malta and replaced the 1961 Constitution,
dating from October 24, 1961. George Borg Olivier was its main
instigator and negotiator. Under its 1964 constitution, Malta
became a parliamentary democracy within the British
Commonwealth. Queen Elizabeth II was sovereign of Malta, and a
governor general exercised executive authority on her behalf,
while the actual direction and cont