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Overview of Soviet Political System

The document discusses the relationship between the judiciary and democratic principles, highlighting the challenges of ensuring an independent judiciary in a system where judges are elected and influenced by public opinion. It also addresses the handling of political offenses in the Soviet judiciary, which deviates from democratic ideals. Furthermore, it emphasizes the dominance of the Communist Party in the Soviet political system, which restricts the nomination of candidates to its members only.

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Overview of Soviet Political System

The document discusses the relationship between the judiciary and democratic principles, highlighting the challenges of ensuring an independent judiciary in a system where judges are elected and influenced by public opinion. It also addresses the handling of political offenses in the Soviet judiciary, which deviates from democratic ideals. Furthermore, it emphasizes the dominance of the Communist Party in the Soviet political system, which restricts the nomination of candidates to its members only.

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548 AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS

Pro-
dean and honourable life as a good citizen in future.
pensity to commit offence is a sort of social disease
which can
^
be prevented by removing the social causes and not by punish-
ing the offender out of a sense of sheer apathy and disgust

The system is more in keeping with democratic prin-


ciple inasmuch as all the judges of all grades of court in-
cludmg the Supreme Court are elected and they can he re-
moved only by the system of re-call or by special impeach-
ment So the judges are excessively dependent on public
opinion The question is can such a system, depending as
^
It does on public opinion, be independent and impartial

Independence of the jiidiciaty is no donht an essential


feature of a good government but it is very difficult to secure
'that sturdy independence of the judiciary by any knovm
method of their appointment and dismissal The Soviet /

judiciary may not be as independent as is desirable but the


system may be said to be more in keeping with democratic
principles

should however be noted here that political offences,


It
ie, treason against the state or destruction of public pro-
perty, espionage on behalf of foreign states are dealt with
very severely These cases are tried without the help of
citizen-judgesand the procedure is also different from the
ordinary procedure which leaves no room for the realisation
of the democratic ideal

Amendment of the Constitution. . x


The may
be amended by the Supreme Soviet.
constitution
All proposals for amendment must be passed by a majority^'
of not less than two-thirds of the votes in each
of its
chambers
Political Party in the U.S.S.R. The study of the Soviet
political system will be incomplete one does not know its
if
party organisation The new constitution does not permit any
other party to nominate candidates for election
The Com-
munist Party is the only political party which
functions both
inside and outside the government, the
hierarchy of the party
havms the sole control over the entire party
machinerv and
through It otei the got eminent The
party “is not only the

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