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Legal Reform in Estonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Priidu Pärna
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Estonia restored its independence in 1991 following the unsuccessful coup attempt for in Moscow. Within six months, the Constitutional Assembly created a draft of a new constitution based on Estonia's constitution of 1938. Estonia's subsequent legal reforms have been based on the Constitution adopted in 1992 reinstating a parliamentary democracy founded on legal continuity. Supreme power is vested in the people, and this power is exercised through a single chamber parliament.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , Summer 2005 , pp. 219 - 223
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Copyright © 2005 by the International Association of Law Libraries. 

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