This idea led to Ba'athist slogans and tenets being included in the Syrian constitution.

Between December 1931 and January 1932, the first elections under the new Syrian constitution were held.

The Syrian constitution has seen very few amendements since it was adopted in 1973.

The new Syrian constitution of 2012, approved in popular referendum, introduced multi-party system without guaranted leadership of any political party.

The year after, however, the party split over the adoption of a Syrian constitution in which the Baath was proclaimed the "leading party" of the country.

To these was often added the more precisely political demand that Article 8 of the Syrian constitution be repealed.

A Lebanese official told that the Syrian government wanted to finish the battle before the referendum poll on the new Syrian constitution.

On March 10, 1920 he was named one of the seven members of the constitutional committee that was charged with drafting the first Syrian constitution.

While the Syrian constitution liberally grants free speech, a state of emergency in effect since the Baath Party seized power suspends this freedom.

He was also one of the legal advisors, who contributed to the drafting of the new Syrian constitution.