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LAW-MAKING AND LAW-MAKING PROCESSES COMPARISON OF METHODS OF ANTI-CORRUPTION EXPERT EXAMINATION ESTABLISHED BY THE RF GOVERNMENT AND ADOPTED BY THE RF CONSTITUENT ENTITIES DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14420/en.2013.6.7

Seredin Pavel Vadimovich, Director of the Kaluga branch of the S.A Lavochkin Research and Production Association (a Federal State Unitary Enterprise), deputy of the Kaluga City Duma, Candidate for a Master’s Degree in the State Administration and Law Department of the International Institute of State Service and Administration of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, e-mail: seredin0167@yandex.ru. Abstract.

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The article describes the law-making activities of local self-governing bodies, analyses the laws regulating the local self-government system, and studies the nature of the power authorities of population and their direct as well as their indirect expression. The notions of popular sovereignty and democracy are discussed, and the point of view that the population does not have independent competence for direct decisions on issues of a power-wielding nature is contested. It is pointed out that not only local self-governing bodies, but also the population of a municipal area, have a right to make rules, or the capability to attach a general binding character to their commands as a primary way of realizing their powers directly, using the mechanism of a referendum or a citizens’ meeting. law-making, local legal act, local self-government, popular sovereignty, municipal formation, territorial public group, referendum, citizens meeting.

A local self-government body exercises its law-making authority by issuing acts. A legal act is directly linked with procedure, as the legitimacy of the adopted document depends on compliance with the relevant procedure. The adoption order for any act has a number of significant procedural features that differ depending on which law-making authority adopts the act: the population, the executive bodies and the representative authority.


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