The Constitution replaced the Decree on State Power of November 1992 which had functioned as an interim basic law following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Just 16 days after the election, the Supreme Council made a number of changes to the still-in-force 1978 Soviet constitution.

[3][4] At the end of 1991, the powers of the Supreme Council of Georgia, the President of the Republic and the Government were terminated in an unconstitutional manner.

[6] On 6 November 1992, the Parliament of the Republic of Georgia adopted the Law on State Power, known as the Small Constitution.

Prof. Givi Intskirveli, Dean of the Faculty of Law of Tbilisi State University and Vakhtang Khmaladze were elected as his deputies.

Various conferences and seminars were organized by the Secretariat of the Commission in 1993–1995 to study the problems in depth and take into account the experience of the states.

On 2 July, the State Constitutional Commission passed the draft by 64 votes against 4 and submitted it to the Parliament of Georgia for approval.

On 4 January, Mikhail Saakashvili won the Georgian presidential election, 2004 with an overwhelming majority of 96 percent of the votes cast.

Zurab Zhvania was appointed prime minister and Nino Burjanadze, the interim president, became speaker of parliament.

According to the new legislation, direct presidential elections are to be abolished and the country will transfer to fully proportional parliamentary representation in 2024.