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Show 111 Muhammad Ali Shah has been considered "the most and vice-ridden monster that had cowardly, in many generations. He hated and of his career, and from , having he easily became the avowed its agents in Persia for a the throne of Persia despised his subjects from the beginning notorious scoundrel for his Russian tutor, tool and stamping disgraced perverted, satrap of the Russian government and out the rights of the people" (Shuster, 1912:21). Muhammad Ali Shah opposed the Constitution. stitution would limit his power, his In order to best oppose the following It is clear this Con prestige, and his property holdings. Constitution, he formed an alliance with the groupsr the members of his court, the landowners and certain members of the be to their The clergy. These groups also had found the Constitution to disadvantage. new king completely disregarded the Assembly. The' fact that he did net invite the representatives to his Coronation ceremony, which was held this resented by the Assembly, suggests newly created branch of the the contempt an act in which he government (Browne, 1910a:134). Defiance of the newly drafted Constitution is witnessed by the fact that while Article 25 of the Fundamental Laws states that "state loans, under whatever title, whether internal the cognizance and approval or external, must be, contracted only with of the National Consultative Muhammad Ali Shah proposed acceptance of a Assembly. " L400, 000 loan from Russia |
