# Professor Wadia Al-Ameoni* One hundred years after the birth of the Lebanese Constitution, the state appears to be trapped between inadequate texts and a National Pact that is invoked to paralyze institutions rather than protect them; the paradox here appears harshly evident. The Constitution, which political forces drafted in 1926 with the aim of establishing a modern state and stable institutions, today staggers in the heart of a chronic political and constitutional crisis, where texts have transformed from tools for organizing political life into open battlegrounds for conflict, obstruction, and conflicting interpretations. Since the establishment of Greater Lebanon, the Lebanese system has adopted an exceptional political formula combining consociational democracy with sectarian quotas.