Constitution Day of the Republic of Belarus

On March 15, 1994 the new Constitution of the Republic of Belarus was drafted.It's a public holiday. The first Constitution of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Belarus (SSRB) was adopted at the First Congress of Soviets of Belarus on February 3, 1919. Its content was permeated with the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which was directly enshrined in the Constitution. Later, it changed many times.

On July 27, 1990, the Declaration of the Supreme Council “On State Sovereignty of the Republic of Belarus” was adopted. The declaration proclaimed “full state sovereignty of the Republic of Belarus as the supremacy, independence and completeness of state power of the Republic within the borders of its territory, the legitimacy of its laws, the independence of the Republic in foreign relations.”

Later, on August 25, 1991, the Declaration of State Sovereignty was given the status of a constitutional law, on the basis of which amendments and additions were made to the Constitution of 1978.

In such legal and political conditions, a new Constitution of the Republic of Belarus was drafted, which was adopted on March 15, 1994.

The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus consists of a preamble, 9 sections, in which 8 chapters and 146 articles.

24 November 1996 The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus was updated and supplemented by the results of the popular referendum.