Constitutional principles of the system of Chechnya in the years 1992–2000/ Konstytucyjne zasady ustroju Czeczenii w latach 1992–2000

Abstract

AbstractThe article presents constitutional principles of the system in Chechnya in the years 1992-2000, the time of the republic’s actual independence. The basis of the analysis is the examination of the 12 March 1992 Constitution of the Republic Chechnya. The chief principles of the system of Republic Chechnya, discussed in chapter 1 and 2, were: the principle of sovereignty and independence, the principle of a republican form of government, the principle of a democratic state of law, the principle of freedom, human and civil rights, the principle of sovereignty of the nation, the principle of political representation, the principle of separation and balance of powers, the principle of a unicameralism, the principle of political pluralism, the principle of a parliamentary system of government, the principle of separateness and autonomy of judicial power, the principle of decentralisation of the public power and local government. The conclusion underlines the fact these principles articulated the values and ideals of a democratic order in the independent Chechnya.