2011-2012 Kazakh-American University PL Kuatova A.

KAZAKH-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HAND-OUTS Principles of law. Faculty of Economics and Law 2 credits 1 semester Lecture #1: The concept of a legal state. Instructor: Kuatova Aida Sh., ass. Prof.

Outline*:

1. State is universal sovereign organization of political power, has its own territory and machinery of compulsion. It is obliged to provide normal conditions of life for people. It raises taxes for implementation of internal and external functions.

Task for IWS under teacher’s guide: Explain the meaning of underlined words and expressions.

2. Classification of states:

State

Etatistic Legal

Task for IWS1: Give definition for each type of state.

Task for IWS2: Give example for each type.

Task for IWS3: What is today’s tendency concerning legal states all over the world?

3. Peculiarities of a legal state:

• legal principles and regulations are followed by everybody

• impossibility to adopt anti-legal normative acts

• actual realization of law in practice

• subordination of legal acts

• provision of a wide range of human rights and freedoms

• legitimacy of state and public institutions and organizations

• realization of the principle of powers separation

• optimal correlation between municipal law and international law

• legal protection of human rights

• mutual liability of citizens and a state

Task for IWS4: According to article 1 of the Constitution of the RK, Kazakhstan proclaims itself as a legal state. Share your opinion.

Glossary:

№	На русском языке	На казахском языке	На английском языке
1	Суверенный	Егемен	Sovereign
Характеристика государства, в котором соблюдается верховенство государственной власти внутри страны и ее независимость во внешних отношениях.
2	Взимать налоги	Салық жинау	To raise taxes
3	Национальное право	Ұлттық құқық	Municipal law
4	Права и свободы человека	Адам құқықтары мен бостандықтары	Human rights and freedoms

Reference: Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan(1995), 2012 / Г.С. Сапаргалиев. Основы государства и права Республики Казахстан, Алматы, 2004.

KAZAKH-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HAND-OUTS Principles of law. Faculty of Economics and Law 2 credits Fall 1st year / AB group Lecture #2: Principles of the RK Constitutional law. Instructor: Kuatova Aida Sh., ass. Prof.

Outline*:

1. Regulations of the constitutional law:

• declaration of people’s power

• declaration of sovereignty and independence

• priority of human rights

• equality of rights and freedoms

2. Features of sovereignty:

• territory

• system of supreme state bodies

• ability to collaborate with other states

• state symbols

3. Task for IWS: Comment the following statement: Kazakhstan is a democratic, secular and legal state. (article 1 of the Constitution).

4. Task for IWS: Comment the following statement: Kazakhstan is a unitary state with presidential system of government.

5. Human rights and freedoms:

• personal

• economic and social

• political

6. Electoral system.

1. Suffrage:

• active

• passive

2. electoral system is order of election into:

• presidency

• parliament

• maslihat

• local organs of self-government