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Uzbekistan Constitution plays in important role in Uzbekistan Parliamentary Government. But unlike the most other parliamentary governments, the formation of the Uzbekistan Constitution and the Uzbekistan government didn’t take place at the same time. The government here was formed in the Soviet era. In August 1991, Uzbekistan declared the independence and it was 8th December, 1992 when the constitution of Uzbekistan came into effect.
There are six sections and one hundred and twenty eight articles in the constitution of Uzbekistan. The constitution begins with a preamble where the devotion to human rights and principles of state sovereignty are declared to the people of Uzbekistan. The basic principles are declared in the first chapter of the constitution. These basic principles of Uzbekistan constitution are described in four chapters. The chapters individually deal with State Sovereignty, Popular Power, The Supremacy of the Constitution and Law and the Foreign Policy. In the second section there are seven chapters that deal with the General Provisions, Citizenship, Personal Rights and Freedoms, Political Rights, Economical and Social Rights, the Rights of Freedom of an Individual and the Obligations of Citizens.
The social and individual issues in Uzbekistan Constitution are discussed in the third section. There are four chapters in it. The fourth section has two chapters and the fifth section has nine chapters. It is the largest section in the constitution. The last section doesn’t have any chapters and it deals with the Procedure for Amending the Constitution.
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