The Sultan Abdülmecid followed in the footsteps of his predecessors to transform the administrative, military and fiscal organs of the empire. The modernizing reforms continued into the nineteenth century. The period from 1839 to 1871 is known as the era of the Tanzimat. The edict of Tanzimat and Islahat are considered the outset of the constitutionalist reforms to prevent the dissolution of the Empire. The edicts were different from the deed of Alliance because the edicts were unilateral and both were declared by the Sultan. Therefore, it can be said that Ottoman’s subjects didn’t struggle for rights and liberties in the edict of Tanzimat and Islahat because the rights and liberties in the edicts were granted by the Sultan.