Masters student of 2nd
course - Eslyamgalyev Zh.R.
Al-Farabi Kazakh National
University
Features
of formation and development principles divisions of the authorities in the
mechanism of the state of RK
Historical
memory stores a lot of instructive and fruitful ideas about the compatibility
with the state law. Legal state is a product of modern times. Neither antiquity
nor the Middle Ages did not know the rule of law. Although considered by some
lawyers, the idea of the rule of law is rooted in the ancient society. The
basis of modern concepts of the rule of law are the ideas of the German
philosopher Kant (1724-years.), French educator and jurist Montesquieu (1689) and
other European Enlightenment XVIII and XIX centuries, such as Hugo Grotius,
Spinoza, Dzh. Lokk, Denis Diderot, J.-J. Rousseau. These scientists believed
that instead of the police, bureaucratic state era of absolutism (which Kant
called the state of arbitrariness), must come rule of law, which is based on
the idea of an autonomous personality possessing inalienable, inalienable
rights. Relationship between the individual and the government under the rule
of law is fundamentally different from those in the absolutist state, because
for the rule of law is characterized by limitation of state power, its
connectivity rules and laws.
The
concept of the rule of law in Kant's thesis are as follows: a source of moral
and legal laws favor the practical reason, or free will of the people; man
becomes a moral person, if the rise to an understanding of their responsibility
to humanity as a whole; in their individual behavior should be guided by the
requirements of the categorical imperative, which is the following: «Act so
that you are always concerned for humanity and in his face; and in the face of
every other as well as to the purpose, and never would apply to it only as a
means of «and» act so that the maxim of your action could become a universal
law»; usually based on the moral law must be defined boundaries of human
behavior with a view to the free will of a person is not contrary to the
freedom of others; law is intended to provide an external decency civilized
relations between people; State is a compound of many people, subordinate legal
laws. Or «state of the idea, such as it should be» obliged to conform «with the
pure principles of law»; State intended to guarantee the rule of law and based
on the principle of sovereignty.
State-legal
views Montesquieu reduced to that form of government, form of government define
the spirit of the laws and the content of the legislation; based on the fact
that the principle of democracy is a virtue, love for the common good; based on
the fact that a «correct» form of government is democracy, in which the supreme
power is vested in the whole mass of the people here and the basic laws govern
your submission of votes by which the expressed will of the people, the
composition and method of the activities of the national assembly; preaches
love of country, respect for the law, support for the existing order, equality
and moderation states, protection of family heritage. Theoretical construct the
rule of law prevailing in the political-legal doctrine eighteenth and twentieth
centuries. Includes the separation of powers between the legislative, executive
and judicial, legal rule of law, mutual responsibility of the individual and
the state, domination type of legal regulation in accordance with the legal
principle of «everything is permitted that is not prohibited by law», the
establishment of real guarantees of individual rights and freedoms.
Many of the key
concepts of the past are repeated at a new stage of historical development. A
few years ago the phrase «state of law» habitually associated with those
sections of the university course where various modifications criticized
Western doctrines of the same name and proclaimed «socialist legal state». In order to understand
the deep essence of the rule of law is not sufficient to restrict the set
though important, but still external characteristics (coupling state law,
separation of powers, the existence of the Constitution), a certain system of
principles, institutions and norms. The essence of the rule of law is not a
law-as well as not in the abundance of legislation - both signs have no legal
and police state. The essence of the law of the state is in the nature of laws
and their compliance with the legal nature of things, aimed at ensuring the
sovereignty of the individual. Hegel emphasized that good laws lead to the
prosperity of the state, and the free ownership is a fundamental condition for
its luster.
In most
developed bourgeois-democratic form of the rule of law is the concept of social
value of all mankind, a successful combination of universal and class
interests. At the heart of the rule of law in the first place, should be based
on the legal economy, rather than command and barracks, doomed to degradation
due to the lack of internal incentives to work. And, secondly, the basis of the
legal system is a civil society development. Civil society is a system of
economic, spiritual, cultural, moral, religious and other relations of
individuals freely and voluntarily united in associations, unions and
corporations to meet their spiritual and material needs and interests. It is
based on the principle of self-governing, protected by customs, traditions and
moral norms and rules of government intervention. State -lish form of civil
society. In antilegal state individual, society and the people of the state as
opposed to the political apparatus of power, alienated from him. There's no
people, there are his subjects. Civil society presupposes the existence of
numerous independent unions, institutions and organizations that serve as a
barrier against the encroachment of monopoly and government agencies. The
concept of civil society implies not only «citizenship», a certain degree of
political freedom, but also the «bourgeois», ie economic independence of the
person the opportunity to earn an income is not out of the hands of the state.
The
deployment of the whole complex of state institutions in a democratic society
eliminates the domination of political power, eliminates or severely restricts
the manifestation of its negative sides. Among the vast complex of institutions
typical of developed state in a democracy, you must specify, in particular, to
such: the mandate of the people to exercise power, primarily through the
formation of representative bodies carrying out legislative and oversight
functions; the presence of the municipal government; subordination of all
divisions rule of law; independent and strong justice; the presence of the
government in separate blocks, including the executive branch.
This
socio-legal measures to regulate the scale of labor and consumption. To restore
the legal principles in the economy should revive a number of freedoms:
1. open space all types of
property;
2. replace administrative
orders treaties based on the equality of the parties;
3. make the overriding principle of «everything that is not prohibited»;
4. to provide an equivalent
nature of the exchange;
5. to approve the equality and integrity in choosing a partner;
6. not to restrict
initiative and enterprise.
Legal
economy and civil society - the transition from the distribution company to
market - is deep, the essential preconditions of the rule of law.
Legal state
- a state that serves the needs of civil society and the legal economy, whose
purpose - to ensure the freedom and well-being. It is under the control of
civil society and is based on the equivalence of goods exchanged on the actual
ratio of public supply and demand, is responsible for law and order, which
guarantees individual liberty and security, because it is the spiritual
foundation for the recognition of human rights. Legal state - a democratic state
where the rule of law is ensured, the rule of law, equality before the law and
an independent judiciary, which recognizes and guarantees the rights and
freedoms of man and where the basis for the organization of government based on
the principle of separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers.
Factors
and conditions of formation of the rule of law, apparently, are the following:
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Overcoming legal nihilism in the public mind;
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Development of high political and legal literacy;
- The
emergence of an effective ability to resist tyranny;
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Distinction between party and state functions;
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Establishment of a parliamentary system of government;
- The
triumph of political and legal pluralism;
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Development of new legal thinking and legal traditions.
Legal
state - a way to revive the natural history of human rights and freedoms, the
priority of the citizen in his relationship with the state, the universal
principles in the law of self-worth of man. The concept of «legal state» - a
fundamental human values such as democracy, humanism, human rights, political
and economic freedom, liberalism and others. The essence of the idea of the
rule of law - in the rule of law in public and political life, there is a
sovereign legal authority. With the separation of powers, the state is
organized and operates the legal way, is a measure of the scale of the
democratization of political life. Legal State opens legally equal access to
participation in political life in all directions and movements. What is the
difference between the rule of law by the state as such? The state as such is
characterized by its absolute power, not bound by law, freedom of the state
from society, unprotected citizens from tyranny and violence on the part of
state bodies and officials. In contrast, the state of law related to the right,
based on the rule of law operates strictly within certain limits set by
society, is subject to the Company responsible to the citizens, provide social
and legal protection of citizens. However, the state of law as well as any
state has common features, which are as follows:
1. It is inherent in
government as a means of domestic and foreign policy.
2. It is a political
organization of society, based on the relevant socio-economic basis of society.
3. Includes a special
state mechanism.
4. Has a certain
administrative-territorial organization in their territory.
5. There is thanks to
taxes and other charges.
6. Has the state
sovereignty.
Features
of the mechanism of the rule of law are as follows. All its structural parts
and elements operate on the principle of separation of powers, strictly in
accordance with its intended purpose. Structural parts and elements of the rule
of law all their activities conform strictly with applicable laws. Officials
are personally responsible for violating the rights and freedoms guaranteed by
the Constitution and other legal acts. Rights and freedoms provided by a body
of law. The mechanism of the rule of law is a way of existence. The functions
of the rule of law are implemented by means of its mechanism. Thus in a legal
state of its mechanism is free from bureaucracy and administrative command and
control. Legal state is the concentrated expression of civil society. Because
of this, its stages of development in general, and generally coincide with the
stages of development of civil society. However, since every state has a
certain autonomy in relation to society, the stages of development of the rule
of law has certain features that reflect its political character. The first
stage in the development of civil society is the legal establishment of a
market economy, entrepreneurship, transparency, freedom of media, social
protection of citizens; the second stage of the market economy-approving
various forms of entrepreneurship and social protection of citizens, the existence
of public, free of the media.
Thus, having
considered the concept of the rule of law and its main features, you must go
directly to the exercise of public authority in a legal state.
State
power in the state of law is not absolute. This is due not only to the rule of
law, cohesion public authorities law, but also by how organized government, in
what form and how it is carried out bodies. It is necessary to turn to the
theory of separation of powers. According to this theory, mixing a compound of
powers (legislative, executive, judicial) in one body, in the hands of one
person runs the risk of establishing a despotic regime, where no individual
freedom. Therefore, in order to prevent the emergence of authoritarian absolute
power, not bound by the law, these branches must be separated, divided,
separated.
With
the separation of powers, constitutional state is organized and operates the
legal process: public authorities acting within their competence, not a
substitute for each other; established mutual control, balance in the
relationship between the state bodies exercising legislative, executive and
judicial power.
The
principle of separation of powers between the legislative, executive and
judicial powers means that each government acts independently and does not
interfere with the other powers. With its consistent implementation eliminates
any possibility of assigning one or another power other powers. The principle
of separation of powers becomes viable if it also heralded a system of «checks
and balances» of the authorities. Such a system of «checks and balances»
eliminates any ground for usurping the powers and authorities of the other one
ensures the normal functioning of the State.
Now,
based on the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan consider the principle
of separation of powers in Kazakhstan. Four of Article of the Constitution of
the Republic of Kazakhstan states: «The state power in the Republic is one, is
based on the Constitution and laws in accordance with the principle of its
division into legislative, executive and court branches and their interaction
with each other using a system of checks and balances». By the legislative bodies in the Republic of
Kazakhstan consist of parliament of two houses: the Senate and Mazhilis, and
the Constitutional Council. The executive branch in the Republic of Kazakhstan
is concentrated in the hands of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as
well as the government authorized the Republic of Kazakhstan, which heads the
executive system and provide guidance to them. The organs of the judiciary in
the Republic of Kazakhstan include the Supreme Court of the Republic, the
Arbitration Court and local courts of the Republic. Parliament of the Republic
of Kazakhstan is a representative and legislative body of the Russian
Federation. The law is considered approved by Parliament, if it receives more
than half of the total membership of both Houses. Adopted by a majority vote of
the total membership of the Senate draft becomes law and within ten days
transmitted to the President of the Republic. President of the Republic of
Kazakhstan is the head of state, guarantor of the Constitution of the Russian
Federation, the rights and freedoms of man and citizen; represents the Republic
of Kazakhstan within the country and in international relations; submit to
Parliament a proposal for the appointment of the Chairman of the National Bank
of Kazakhstan, General Prosecutor and the Chairman of the Committee Nat.
security; put before Parliament the issue of resignation of the Government;
forms the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan by appointment at the
proposal of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Deputy Prime
Ministers; is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Republic of
Kazakhstan shall appoint and dismiss the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces of
the Republic of Kazakhstan.
For a
democratic society the principle of separation of powers is especially
important and significant. It expresses not only the division of labor between
the public authorities, but also moderation, «dispersal» of the government,
warning her concentration, turning it into an authoritarian and totalitarian
power. This principle in a democratic society implies that all three powers are
the same, is equal in strength to serve as counterweights to each other and can
"hold back" one another, to prevent the domination of one of them.
For example, the conversion of administrative power in authoritarian and
legislative -in "absolute power" in a totalitarian power to subdue
and control, and justice.
In a
state of law, no state agency, officer, staff or public organization, no one
has the right to infringe on the law. For violations they have strict legal
liability. When we talk about the rule of law as a legal act, which has supreme
legal force, we mean that all laws must conform strictly to him, but officials
did not shy away from his execution, much less break it. Also unacceptable «enrich»
the law regulations, to invest in its content a meaning which was not foreseen
by the legislator.
All legal
acts issued in the Republic of Kazakhstan, may not contradict the Constitution
of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Provides for
the adoption of constitutional laws concerning: the rights and freedoms of man
and citizen, enshrined in Chapter 2; the system of taxes and duties (Article
35), the unitary structure of the state; the general principles of organization
of representative and executive bodies, the election of the President, members
of the Government, the Parliament and the formation of others.
Kazakhstan's
President issues decrees and orders, which do not contradict the Constitution
and binding on the whole territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The
Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall issue decisions and orders and
ensures their implementation. They are binding on the entire territory of the
Republic of Kazakhstan and are based on the Constitution of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, the laws having the force of constitutional law, regulations,
decrees of the President. The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan - the
legal basis of all legislation, which sets out the basis for economic, social
and political organization of society, establishes a mechanism for the
government and management, basic rights and duties of citizens. Hence the
importance of the Constitution as the Basic Law of the State. Should be
possible to try to ensure that the Constitution took a real place in the legal
system, had practical value. The Constitution sets out the basic positions of
all parties, public and social life, so for practical implementation of its
provisions are usually necessary secondary legislation detailing the
constitutional provisions to the extent to which this is necessary for their
implementation. However, the most important issues and the Constitution itself
should be sufficiently specific to serve as a source of direct action rules,
mandatory for government agencies and officials. Among such norms are those
that reinforce the fundamental rights, freedoms and duties of citizens, a reality
which must not be linked to the presence or absence of a special act concerning
a mechanism for implementing the specified group of constitutional norms.
A careful
approach to the development of legislation, on the one hand, and the
willingness to make the necessary corrections and amendments resulting from
real-life practice, on the other hand, the representing themselves the rules
which should guide the legislator. Legislative acts, even those relating to the
key aspects of public and social life, often do not meet the requirements of
regulatory and warranty. Under such conditions, these acts do not become real
regulator of social relations do not lead to any significant social effect, in
spite of all the calls and even fight for the observance and implementation of
such acts. You must install the high quality of the legislation, as well as to
establish the mechanism of self-realization of legal norms, which will
contribute to the establishment of the rule of law.
Concrete
historical experience of formation and development of legal state is determined
by socio-economic and political conditions, the level of social justice,
subjective factors, national and historical traditions. One such condition is
the existence of a single legal space within the boundaries of the state. Legal
scholars, engaged in the development problems of law and the formation of
linking its foundations primarily with the implementation of the rule of law as
a basic democratic values, focusing on the concept of legal law, the need to
make laws, including the Constitution, direct action, to streamline
departmental and local law-making , create legal mechanisms to ensure full
compliance with the law. But the implementation of these ideas is only possible
if there is a single legal space as the defining conditions of formation of
legal state. «War of laws», which began with the adoption of the former Soviet
republics of the Declaration on State Sovereignty, one of the provisions which
proclaims the priority of the Republican legislation before the union
continues.
In the
modern democratic state of law the legal efficacy is associated with the
presence of a single legal space in which priority is the principle of the rule
of law, taken on behalf of the people and expressing its sovereign will, over
all operating in the country regulations. Regulations, including departmental
directives, orders, regulations, subject to constitutional control. This means
that they can be challenged, appealed and revoked based on violations of the
law or, on the contrary, after a certain judicial process as confirmed by the
Constitution and other laws.
The idea of
a single legal space becomes national. In Western Europe, the concept of legal
space, along with the concept of the European Economic Area, is increasingly
recognized, and is expressed in the fight against terrorism, human rights, the
right of asylum, the relationship between law enforcement agencies.
In a state
of law, there are certain guarantees of legality, which ensure compliance with
and enforcement of the law. This -social, economic, political, legal and
international guarantees. Political guarantees the rule of law is a
particularly democratic social and political system of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, the political and ideological pluralism, active participation of
citizens in managing the affairs of the state. Socio-economic guarantees
legality manifold forms of ownership, creating the necessary conditions for
their development, providing them equal protection, free enterprise, the right
of citizens to dispose of their abilities to productive and creative work, fair
employment, dismissal, remuneration and labor protection, etc. . By legal
safeguards include: regulatory compliance laws or regulations of the social
relations in need of legal consolidation, efficient operation of special bodies
that control the observance of laws and law enforcement, legal responsibility
of the persons encroaching on the rights and freedoms of citizens. By
international safeguards include: activities of international organizations and
specialized agencies of the UN to monitor the human rights situation in various
countries, inspection visits of their representatives in the regions where
broken legislation enshrining the rights and freedoms of citizens, the right of
citizens to appeal to international bodies for the protection of their rights .
Law and
legal state-category largely identical, but they have a few different accents.
The law requires unconditional compliance by all subjects the legal sphere,
while the state of law imposes such a requirement for public entities acting as
a public authority. Therefore, the implementation of the legal regime of the
state is the rule of law primarily in the power structures - public
authorities, the control of the court and the prosecutor's office and their
officials. As a result, laws and legal state leads to the conversion of the law
into an independent, objective force livelihoods of which does not depend on
the attitude to it.
Thus, having
considered these aspects of the rule of law as a system of separation of powers
and the rule of law, we come to the main function of the rule of law.
The rule of
law means not only the priority of the law as a form of legal act in respect of
regulations as a part of the rights and freedoms set out for members of the
community legislation in force. In a state of law any infringement of human
rights is unacceptable. Moreover it must consistently and rigorously to ensure
the implementation of these rights and protect them. In this context, the
fundamental importance of legal equality problem in various areas of society
and the state. Its solution involves the creation of the state of reliable
safeguards to ensure such equality.
The rights
and freedoms of man and citizen, peculiar rule of law contained in
international instruments. This is primarily the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948. International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, adopted at the twenty-first session of the UN
General Assembly on December 16, 1966.
The rights
and freedoms set forth in the above acts is fixed and guaranteed by the
constitutions of law. Particular importance is attached to them in the legal
security of the person, which is unthinkable without the presumption of
innocence. The presumption of innocence means also that a truly democratic
state recognizes that all issues relating to the guilt or innocence of citizens
in the commission of a crime, should be dealt with only through the courts.
Moreover, in criminal proceedings which may be sentenced to death, a citizen
has the right to demand that his judge jury. The Republic of Kazakhstan is
reflected in Article 75 of the law of the Constitution of the Republic of
Kazakhstan.
The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms, adopted by the UN in 1948,
consists of 30 articles. It declares that «all human beings are born free and
equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and
should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood». It further states
the inadmissibility of cruel, degrading, treatment and punishment. Article 6 of
the Declaration recognizes the right of everyone to recognition before the law,
ie, of a person to acquire rights and to carry out the duties stipulated by the
legislation.
The declaration also
states that no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile,
that everyone has the right to equal protection of the law, in a vowel, fair
and impartial trial. The Declaration also states the inadmissibility of
arbitrary interference in private and family life of citizens, attacks against
the safety of their homes, correspondence, etc. It fixes and other human rights
and freedoms that should be recognized and respected by all states (freedom of
thought, conscience and religion, freedom of movement within each state, the
right of asylum in other countries, the right to work, equal pay, the right to
free choice profession, the right to protection against unemployment, the right
to form trade unions, etc.). Political and ideological pluralism - the hallmark
of the rule of law. Without such pluralism is simply unthinkable. Functioning
in the face of such pluralism, various social forces in the face of their
political organizations are fighting for power in the state in a civilized
manner, in an honest confrontation with their political opponents. Ideological
pluralism provides them with the opportunity to freely express their software
setup, freely conduct propaganda and agitation in favor of their ideological
concepts.
Political
and ideological pluralism is an expression of the embodiment of democracy and
society, allows each member to decide the question of their commitment to one or
another political organization and ideological bias.
This
explains why the state should not impose on society any one ideology or create
an advantage for one or another political organization.
All
the rights and freedoms listed in the Declaration must be provided in a real
state. This is achieved primarily adoption and implementation of a variety of
laws that perpetuate them in the relevant field of public relations. Among the
international human rights instruments should also specify the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In
Kazakhstan, all are equal before the law and the courts. The Constitution
declares the inadmissibility of the use of the rights and freedoms to infringe
on the constitutional order, the rights and freedoms of other persons, the
inadmissibility of the deprivation of human rights and freedoms and their
limitations.
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