| Abstract [eng] |
In this master's thesis on the basis of the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, there is considered the extent of Parliament‘s authority legitimated in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, the Seimas‘ Statute and other laws and the code to set its own structure and procedure. Here is also discovered the concept of Seimas structure in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania of the 25th of October, 1992. Here are analyzed the constitutional formulation that the Seimas’ Statute has a force of the law; as well as the concept and content; there is analyzed the legal status and functioning of the legal aspects and the related legal problems arising in practice. At the first part of this work there are discussed the most important aspects of development and organizational law aspects in the Republic of Lithuania during the period of the year 1918–1940. This is the Council of the State of Lithuania (provisional Lithuanian parliamentary authority), the evolution of Constituent Assembly and the first Lithuanian Parliaments and the legal aspects of their organizational structure. In the history of Lithuanian parliamentary there is no less important the period of the year 1990–1992, the Supreme Council and the Reconstituent Seimas, so in this work there is also discussed the unique status of the parliamentary institution and the legal aspects of the organization of the structure. Researching the current structure of the Seimas, it is also important to analyze the experience of the historical Seimas‘structure. Here is analyzed not only the current Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and the Seimas‘ Statute but also the historical inoperative constitutions and Seimas‘ statutes, the contents of which undoubtedly had an impact on the formation of the current Seimas‘ structure and strengthening. Therefore it is regarded as the heritage of parliamentary democracy of Lithuania. In order to revitalize the study text, there are some Seimas speech transcripts. The second part of the work focuses on the legal bases of Seimas‘political and organizational structure and its functioning that still haven‘t got enough lawyers’ attention. The specific organization of work reveals in a consideration of the individual structural units of Seimas: the exceptional features of the legal status of Seimas committees and study (control commission), of the legal regulation of Seimas interia study commissions, parliamentary outfits, parliamentary groups and the parliamentary minority. Here are emphasized the status and functions of self-sufficiency of Parliament and its constituent bodies. Here will be also dealt with so far almost unexplored and having poor attention in the legal literature, the organization of Seimas Office‘s apparatus and the main legal aspects. In this way the complexity of Seimas structure and the importance for implementation of the constitutional functions of Parliament are discovered. |
