The Constitution was submitted to the All-Union Congress of Soviets on 6 July 1923 for ratification upon the body's next meeting.

He said "Leaving us, comrade Lenin bequeathed to us the duty of holding high and keeping pure the great calling member of the party.

[5] The Seventh Congress of Soviets of the USSR was held in February 1935, when Stalin introduced the proposal for constitutional reform.

The proposal was initially discussed in the meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party held before the Seventh Congress.

The Congress voted "that the new constitution should incorporate some of the best features of parliamentary democracy, that the representation of urban and rural voters should be equalized, that voting should be secret and direct, and that the All-Union Central Executive Committee should appoint a constitutional commission to draft the new organic law.