Kushtakova, A.A. Development of statehood in the Republic of Dagestan after the constitutional reform of 2003.

Abstract: The article includes analysis of the changes, which took place after the Constitution of the Republic of Dagestan was passed in 2003. In order to protect Russian statehood from the year 2000 on there was a number of measures regarding reforms of federal relations, guarantees of stronger federation, united legal territory, constitutionality and legitimacy of all levels and all branches of the state government. The author compares the Constitution of the Republic of Dagestan in 1994 and in 2003. The analysis shows that most amendments took place in the norms regarding state bodies, including introduction of the presidential position. While under the Constitution of the Republic of Dagestan of 1994 the head of the executive branch was a collegiate body – the State Council of the Republic of Dagestan, the current Constitution of 2003 introduce the offi cial position of the head of the executive branch of power – the Head of the Republic. All other changes are mostly related with the systematization and bringing the constitutional provisions into accordance with the changes, which took place in the federal legislation.

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