Ammon News - By Mohammad Qaseem Ghadi - Australia

"and under the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Council, it was decided unanimously to proclaim the country, the Jordanian state fully independent and with the Government of hereditary monarchy, representative of allegiance to King master of the country and founder of its structure and the heir to the Arab Renaissance (Abdullah Bin Al Hussein,) as a constitutional monarch at the head of Jordan's state title by His
Majesty the King of Saudi Arabia Jordan Jordan. "

With these words, Legislative Council passed the Jordanian fifth in the twenty-fifth of May 1946 historic decision which he announced the independence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan lined with letters of gold story of its creation of the Jordanian government as the basis of the Arab renaissance that carried the burden of responsibility and stressed the Arab character thus restoring the Arabs to its former glory.

It was Jordan the first Arab countries which carried the characteristics of a constitutional state and the country was the form to an independent state, since that stepped forward Prince Abdullah Bin Al Hussein (King Founder) Land of Jordan, when received by Ma'an in atheist twenty-November 1920 announced His Highness that its target is to liberate the country from colonialism.

Upon arrival His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah, to Maan started his career by issuing a statement on the fifth of December 1920 invited the Arab officers and tribal leaders to join him in Ma'an.

And began flight Foundation on Monday, the twenty-eighth of February 1921 to latch backpacker in Amman at noon on the second Wednesday of March of the same year to be that day, on the promise of the birth of East Jordan, which grew and was completed to become the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the twenty fifth of May 1946.

And sent the British High Commissioner Herbert Samuel, many of the reports to the British government from the beginning of the month of January 1920 increased activity, talking about al-Hashemi in the region, and that Oman has become a focus of all the Liberal and National, which was designated by the French authorities and British outlaws.

It was not long until HRH Prince Abdullah invitation of Sir Samuel to visit Jerusalem and meet with the British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, His Highness answered the call.

It took his talks in Jerusalem with the Churchill three rounds of 28 and 29 and March 30, 1921, at which many of the issues discussed in the light of the results from the Middle East conference in the twelfth of March 1921, as well as the recommendations of the Lawrence, recommendations and suggestions Samuel.

The success of Prince in his negotiations with Churchill was the reason in the decision of the League of Nations, which represents international legitimacy timely recognition of eastern Jordan as a geographic and political independent, where the decision was issued later in the twenty-third of September 1922.

After the end of his talks he returned to Amman to initiate the formation of the Government of Jordan in the first atheist th April 1921, headed by Rashid Tali was named a timely manner on behalf of the President (Administrative Clerk) and called the Board's (Board consultants) which consisted of seven members.

Although many events have taken place in the East Jordan targeted the country's security and stability, but the Amir Abdullah Bin Al Hussein continued his plan to achieve independence and complete the procedures to a constitutional state.

To this end, His Highness visited London on the third of October 1922 and returned in early January 1923 after lengthy negotiations resulted in a draft treaty Jordan British.
Sheikh Ahmed went on his visit, saying: "I also told the crowd in this position when I came to this region as you know, that if I had a seventy breath Vkdmtha all for the sake of nationalism and the nation as you saw me duty."

He adds His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah says, "and said spokesman rigorous confirmation Azmi former make this country a pillar and safer, more comfortable with a good management diameters fans free of complaints inhabitants and Mgeoreha, and I hope I hit this image as he deems lovers home and asylum is good for him."

As charted Jordan by building state institutions, it has also spread to the stage of the Declaration of Independence was passed by two stages the first declaration of independence in the twenty-fifth of May 1923 and the second British recognition of this independence as the Mandatory Power under the decision of the League of Nations of the twenty-third of September 1922, came This recognition at the end of October the same year.

In preparation for these stages was held at the fifteenth of May 1923 an official ceremony attended by the men of Palestine and Jordan gave Amir a long speech initiated by the historical introduction of the glory of the Arab nation and here, Sheikh Zayed said "fell Arab renaissance blessed by those chosen by God Almighty mainstay her and the leader of its own affairs. ... " .

He spoke of His Highness the Amir for Britain's negotiations with the king of valuing the recognition of independence and the government will proceed to amend the election law and the development of the Basic Law of eastern Jordan.

He said His Highness for independence: "I hope that this happy day for the nation taken as a festival showing pleasure and Ahburha Him and draw help ..." .

However, what was stated in an interview with Sir Herbert Samuel, on the same occasion and celebration of the day was a clear message that Britain's recognition of independence was not complete when he said "We are now celebrating, the agreement contract with the Prince during his visit to His Majesty King George and the British government, is no secret you that the agreement provides for the recognition of His Majesty's Government the existence of an independent government in East Jordan, chaired by His Highness Prince Abdullah Bin Al Hussein, provided that the UN approved by the Assembly of this, the Government of Transjordan to the constitutionality of His Majesty the King was able to carry out its international obligations with respect to that country by agreement held between two governments. "

Construction has continued internal and the armed forces and state institutions and improving the Constitutional Treaty to be held between His Highness Prince Abdullah Bin Al Hussein, King of Britain, which authorized the Marshal (Sweaters), where the treaty signed in Jerusalem on the twentieth of February 1928.

Included the treaty of the twenty articles, the most important thing in which he said of the principles of development of a basic law of any constitution for the country and the government's concession of British legislative and executive branches of Prince Abdullah Bin Al Hussein and to remain Britain's right to maintain military forces on its soil and enable them to a force when it wants and how you want start to ensure that Britain's territorial sovereignty of the country.

And regulate the affairs of state and lay the foundations of democracy, there was the first legislative elections followed by the opening of the first session of the Legislative Council held the first in the east of Jordan on the second Saturday of November 1929, where His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah's Speech from the Throne in which he reviewed the events of that time.

He said late in his speech "I have to carry the British High Commissioner to East Jordan in his recent text of the Treaty of His Britannic Majesty, together with a letter from His Excellency saying he had ordered to inform us on recognition of the king the existence of an independent government in the east of Jordan and that he had been entrusted to us by law and the administration in the emirate without restrictions other than reservations set forth in the Convention on the eastern Jordan, and that leads us to lead the royal princes and heads of state from the familiar greeting. "
And, consequently, the text of the recognition of the independence of East Jordan, which was issued in the twenty-ninth of October 1929 signing of a formal British High Commissioner to East Jordan:

"His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah Bin Al Hussein, Emir of Transjordan in Amman, has been ordered to inform Your Highness noted that based on the recognition of His Majesty the existence of an independent government in East Jordan, since he had been entrusted to Your Highness the legislation and administration in the emirate without restrictions other than reservations set forth in the Convention East Jordan, announced that His Majesty's approval to launch a twenty-one gun salute to your Highness in the circumstances, a familiar greeting which usually trigger the royal princes and heads of state. "

Thereby achieving the independence of the Emirate of Transjordan, which was known as the Government of the Arab Middle East in 1929 in the twenty-ninth of the month of October.

Active effect of these developments, the democratic movement in Jordan, especially after that ensured that the Basic Law for the Eastern Jordan, which issued on the sixteenth of April 1928 and consisted of seventy articles in seven chapters dealt with people's rights and duties of the prince and his rights and legislation, the judiciary and the administration and effectiveness of laws and judgments.

Here appeared several parties, including the Independence Party, the Arab who is accustomed to its inception in 1921, when the request of His Highness Prince Abdullah, Rashid Tali form a political party and a party of the Covenant Arab who declared that the program is based on the independence of all Arab countries under the administration of King Hussein Ben Ali and his sons and return its establishment to in 1921 and the Assembly of the Arab Middle East, which called for the independence of Syria natural borders of Jordan and the People's Party which was formed in 1927.

The period between the signing of Anglo-Jordanian Treaty of 1923, and until the declaration of independence of Jordan in 1946 was eventful, apart from political activity, which guaranteed a free democratic basic law for the Eastern Jordan.
Palestinian revolution broke out in 1936 to stop those with the Jordanians, and raised the Flag of the Great Arab Revolt slogan.

And World War II began in 1939, which reiterated the events of World War I in the region, and during the war had contacts with Britain's declaration of full independence of the state of Jordan was concerned that the response of Britain in the war prevents current thinking in such cases.

After emergence the United Nations in the twenty-fifth of April 1945, in San Francisco and directed the Jordanian government memorandum to the British government in the twenty-seventh of June 1945, requesting the initiation of negotiations to declare the independence of East Jordan has received the British policy an invitation to His Highness Prince Abdullah at the beginning of 1946.

After recognition of the British government at a meeting of the United Nations on the seventeenth of January 1946 that East Jordan to the level of development calls for an end to the mandate given him and started negotiations independence official with the Jordanian side.

Travel Prince Abdullah on the twentieth of February 1946 accompanied by an official delegation of the government headed by Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Hashim, and conducted negotiations with the British government ended in a treaty signed in the twenty-second of March 1946 by Ibrahim Hashim from East Jordan, Ernest Bevin, British Foreign
Secretary, which occurred in final on the seventeenth of June 1946.

Under the treaty on bilateral cooperation in all areas as well as Britain's recognition of the independence of East Jordan, and that the duration of the Treaty of twenty-five years.

In view of these developments have coalesced Legislative Council Jordanian fifth in the twenty-fifth of May 1946, read the note by the Prime Minister of the fifteenth of May 1946 which supported the decision to declare the country on behalf of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the basis of self-determination and the promises of the United Nations and because of the sacrifices made by Jordan commitment to treaties and conventions.

It is stated in the text of the historic resolution which declares the independence of Jordan on behalf of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan:

"To achieve the national aspirations and pursuant to the desire of public expressed by the municipal councils of Jordan in its reporting to the Legislative Council, according to the rights of the country's legitimate, natural, and holy war prolonged and obtained by the promises and covenants international official, at the suggestion of the Council of Ministers note No. 521 dated 3 Jumada Hereafter, 1365., corresponding to 15/05/1946 examined the Legislative Council MP for the Jordanian people is independence of the country of Jordan full independence on the basis of parliamentary monarchy, with the pledge of allegiance to King master of the country and founder of the entity (Abdullah Bin Al Hussein), as discussed amending the Basic Law, the Jordanian On this basis, under the purview of constitutional, and the deliberation and consultation decided unanimously to proclaim the country, the Jordanian state fully independent and with the Government of hereditary monarchy, representative of allegiance to King master of the country and founder of its structure and the heir to the Arab Renaissance (Abdullah Bin Al Hussein) as a constitutional monarch at the head of Jordan's state title by His Majesty King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. "

And endorsed by His Majesty the King founded on the decision to declare independence, the first source of ownership will Semitic adorned by resolution the following words:
"Dependent on a God I agree on this resolution grateful to the people and confident of my Government ..."

Has been a big ceremony where she presented a document of allegiance His Majesty the King, dedicated copy of the Koran from the honorable Mayor of Amman, and several speeches by His Majesty replied by saying:

"It is yes, God's people realize that the Crown complex turned out, the symbol and the appearance of his conscience and the unity of feeling, but he is God and the commandment of His Messengers customers to look at the King of justice and fear God, because justice is the basis king, and of wisdom, fearing God, we are faced with the burden of our King and the teachings we have embarked and the balance of our ancestors, Almthabron the help of God to serve our people and the empowerment of our country and cooperate with our brothers the kings of the Arabs and their superiors for the good of all the Arabs and the glory of the whole humanity .. " .

As a result of economic and social development and political structure of the population during the eighteen years after the enactment of Basic Law in 1928, became necessary after independence to modify or change has been the new constitution after the Declaration of Independence and was approved by the Legislative Council in the twenty-eighth of November 1946.

Jordan has developed a constitutionally increasingly determined to achieve unity, freedom and a better life and work in service of Arab issues has fought the Arab Legion in the 1948 war and made martyrs and keep Jerusalem and the West Bank.

This has been a country always been a country of principles and the nobility and loyalty to the Hashemite leadership Proud of belonging to a rich Arab country that say about the late King Hussein Bin Talal, God rest his soul, "and your country, Jordan, that is the inheritor of the principles the Great Arab Revolt in unity, freedom and independence for all Arabs, lived on Square dear from the yards of the national struggle since fluttered in the sky led by Abdullah Bin Al-Hussein, a leader of the leaders of the Great Arab Revolt and the founder of Jordan, was surrounded and assist many of the men and pioneering work and the people of the former people from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula and other land of Arabism, gathering One hopes the endless march of the goals and one. "

And continue the march Alhashimin in construction and giving a legacy carrier, the Great Arab Revolt of the Jordan become a model for the expansion of popular participation and activation of the consolidation of democracy, led by sovereign enhanced Majesty King Abdullah II, who bears the burden of the march for the dignity of the country and its people.

Says King may God protect him, addressing dignitaries home and Members of the Parliament at the opening of the second regular session of the Council of the nation's fifteenth, "You are the chosen people of Jordan afternoon, looking for a better future, and the completion of the state of institutions, which inherited the message the Great Arab Revolt, and grandsons of leaders who have devoted themselves, towards the greatness of this country and the dignity of his people loyal to the principles of that revolution and its noble mission. "

Mohammad Qaseem Ghadi - Australia