He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.

On 1 December 1988, the Supreme Soviet amended the Soviet constitution to allow for the establishment of a Congress of People's Deputies as the Soviet Union's new supreme legislative body.

On 14 June, 2012, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ordered the People's Assembly to be dissolved, citing irregularities in the election of members.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

As a result, the duties of the head of state are constitutionally delegated to the Supreme People's Assembly whose chairman is " Head of State for foreign affairs " and performs some of the roles of a Head of State, such as accrediting foreign ambassadors.

The administrative regulations enacted by the State Council, the ministerial rules and the judicial explanations of the Supreme People's Court stipulate detailed rules concerning the various aspects of the employment relationship.

They either totaled the number of delegates elected to the Supreme People's Assembly ( each delegate representing 50, 000 people before 1962 and 30, 000 people afterward ) or relied on official statements that a certain number of persons, or percentage of the population, was engaged in a particular activity.

The enhanced status of the military and military-centered political system was confirmed at the first session of the 10th Supreme People's Assembly ( SPA ) by the promotion of National Defense Commission ( NDC ) members in the official power hierarchy.

Their terms of office are concurrent with the Supreme People's Assembly.

According to the constitution, the legislative Supreme People's Assembly ( SPA ) is the highest organ of state power.

A standing committee known as the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and elected by the Assembly performs legislative functions when the Assembly is not in session.

The president of the Supreme People's Assembly is Kim Yong-nam.

Their terms of office coincide with those of the members of the Supreme People's Assembly.

" The position of Chairman of the National Defence Commission has been declared the " highest office of state " and has the " highest administrative authority " according to decrees issued by the Supreme People's Assembly.

According to the constitution, North Korea is a Democratic Republic and the Supreme People's Assembly and provincial People's Assemblies are elected by direct universal suffrage and secret ballot.

Supreme People's Assembly ( SPA )

In December 1988, the Supreme Soviet approved formation of a Congress of People's Deputies, which constitutional amendments had established as the Soviet Union's new legislative body.

The amendments called for a smaller working body of 542 members, also called the Supreme Soviet, to be elected from the 2, 250-member Congress of People's Deputies.

Gorbachev was elected without opposition to the chairmanship of the new Supreme Soviet ; then the Congress of People's Deputies elected a large majority of old-style party apparatchiks to fill the membership of its new legislative body.

Later that month, before the Supreme Soviet, he proposed the creation of a new office of President of the Soviet Union, for himself to be elected by the Congress of People's Deputies rather than the popular elections.

* Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea

A locus of this opposition was increasingly the two-level parliament, whose upper level was the Congress of People's Deputies ( CPD ) and lower level the Supreme Soviet.

A People's History of the Supreme Court.

This seems like an attitude favoring a sort of totalitarian bureaucracy which, under a President of the same stamp, would try to coerce an uncooperative Congress or Supreme Court.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

his requesting, and often getting, higher wages, better working conditions, better schools -- changes that were slowly emerging even before the Supreme Court decision of 1954.

the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

The editorial concerned legislative proposals to ease the tax burden on DuPont stockholders, in connection with the United States Supreme Court ruling that DuPont must divest itself of its extensive General Motors stock holdings.

-- Indonesia Military Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence passed on Alan Lawrence Pope, an American pilot.

I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.

But the Supreme Court wouldn't even hear my case!!

For almost a hundred years we relied upon state courts ( subject to review by the Supreme Court ) for the protection of most rights arising under national law.

In 1910 it required the convening of a special three-judge court for the issuance of certain injunctions and allowed direct appeals to the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, like Congress, showed misgivings concerning this aspect of government by injunction.

On review the Supreme Court, via Mr. Justice Frankfurter, found southern racial problems `` a sensitive area of social policy on which the federal courts ought not to enter unless no alternative to adjudication is open ''.

To insure uniformity in the meaning of national law, however, state interpretations are subject to Supreme Court review.

Only when a decision is rendered by the District Court of Appeal ( or, of course, the Supreme Court ) is a binding precedent established.

It is an issue which may well reach the Supreme Court of the United States before judicial finality is achieved.

As a school district, the District of Columbia has had desegregated schools since 1954, shortly after the Supreme Court decision.

On the one hand do we argue the Supreme Court decision required only that a child not be denied admission to a school on account of his race??

Probably a lawyer once said it best for all time in the Supreme Court of the United States.

The struggle was resolved in 1819 in the Supreme Court in one of the most intriguing cases in our judicial history.

`` It is a duty '', said Hough, `` not to let pass this opportunity of protesting against the methods of taking and printing testimony in Equity, current in this circuit ( and probably others ), excused if not justified by the rules of the Supreme Court, especially to be found in patent causes, and flagrantly exemplified in this litigation.

In 1912 the United States Supreme Court adopted a new set of rules of equity which became effective on February 1, 1913.

There is little doubt that they were promulgated by the Supreme Court as a direct result of the Selden patent suit.

Under Formby's plan, an appointee would be selected by a board composed of the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the House, attorney general and chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.

The fight over the Warwick School Committee's appointment of a coordinator of audio-visual education may go to the state Supreme Court, it appeared last night.