Constitution (fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: As Amended by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, on February 25, 1947, on the Recommendations of the Drafting CommissionInformation Bulletin, Embassy of the U.S.S.R., 1947 - 40 pages |
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administrative organ agricultural Areas The Ministry Armed Forces Autonomous Region Autonomous Republic Autonomous Soviet Socialist collective farms conformity Constitution Council of Ministers decisions and orders defense direct the branches districts duty Elections of deputies electors elects the Presidium enterprises executive and administrative factory and office farms and cooperative foreign Higher Organs Industry The Ministry intervals between sessions joint sitting jurisdiction Kazakh Kazakhstan kishlaks laws in operation military Ministry directs Ministry of Construction mous Regions national economic plan orders new elections Ossetian People's Deputies Procurator-General Republican Ministries Reserves The Ministry respective Chambers rest and leisure right is ensured rights of citizens rural localities socialist property Socialist Republic consists Socialist Republics ARTICLE socialist system Soviet of Nationalities Soviet Socialist Republic stanitsas Supreme Court system of economy term of five term of office Territories titles of honor Union of Soviet Union-Republican Ministries USSR are guaranteed Uzbek verifies their execution Vice-Chairmen Western Areas
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Page 10 - The sovereignty of the Union Republics is limited only in the spheres defined in Article 14 of the Constitution of the USSR. Outside of these spheres each Union Republic exercises state authority independently. The USSR protects the sovereign rights of the Union Republics.
Page 9 - Control over the observance of the Constitution of the USSR and ensuring conformity of the Constitutions of the Union Republics with the Constitution of the USSR...
Page 37 - Deputies — are chosen by the electors on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot. Art. 135. Elections of deputies are universal: all citizens of the USSR who have reached the age of eighteen, irrespective of race or nationality, sex, religion, education, domicile, social origin, property status or past activities...
Page 32 - The Council of Ministers of the USSR is appointed by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and consists of: The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR; The...
Page 16 - Annuls decisions and orders of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and of the Councils of Ministers of the Union Republics if they do not conform to law...
Page 7 - Work in the USSR is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: 'He who does not work, neither shall he eat.
Page 34 - ARTICLE 122 Women in the USSR are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, government, cultural, political and other public activity.
Page 34 - Citizens of the USSR have the right to education. This right is ensured by universal, compulsory elementary education; by education, including higher education, being free of charge; by the system of state stipends for the overwhelming majority of students in the universities and colleges; by instruction in schools being conducted in the native language...
Page 6 - The land, its mineral wealth, waters, forests, mills, factories, mines, rail, water and air transport, banks, communications, large state-organized agricultural enterprises (state farms, machine and tractor stations and the like), as well as municipal enterprises and the bulk of the dwelling-houses in the cities and industrial localities, are state property, that is, belong to the whole people.
Page 5 - Republics is a socialist state of workers and peasants. ARTICLE 2 The political foundation of the USSR is the Soviets of Working People,s Deputies, which grew and became strong as a result of the overthrow of the power of the landlords and capitalists and the conquest of the dictatorship of the proletariat.