Legislative Authority in the Soviet Political System
- 1 March 1971
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Slavic Review
- Vol. 30 (1) , 57-73
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2493443
Abstract
It is a settled principle of Soviet constitutional law that the USSR Supreme Soviet is the supreme representative organ, the supreme legislative body, and the supreme executor of the people's sovereignty. The 1936 Constitution subordinates all other organs of government to the Supreme Soviet, and it alone, on the national level, has the right to form governments, pass laws, and amend the Constitution. The Constitution also stipulates, however, that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is “the vanguard of the workers in their struggle for the construction of a communist society and constitutes the guiding core of all workers’ organizations, public as well as governmental.”Keywords
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