NCJ Number
132685
Journal
Criminal Law Forum Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Dated: (Autumn 1990) Pages: 85-110
Date Published
1990
Length
26 pages
Annotation
The political reform carried out in the USSR in 1989-1990 has moved from a command-administrative system based on a symbiosis of party, State, and industrial monopoly to a legal system of authority with supreme power vested in the Soviets of people's deputies of all levels.
Abstract
Perfecting the legal basis of a society requires a complex approach to many problems of interaction between the State and the law. The fundamental concept of the model of a legal State is the requirement that the State and its organs be bound by the law. The concept of a legal State absolutely excludes the possibility of violating one's own laws and principles of law, even on the part of the supreme organs of power. Many other defects as important to the concept of a legal State as those involved in lawmaking have seriously undermined the principle of the supremacy of the law and indeed the Soviet legal regime as a whole. 41 footnotes