Constitutions of the Mongolian People's Republic

[1] It abolished the monarchical system under Buddhist theocracy and established a people's republic, described the legislative consolidation of state power, provided a basic statement of socioeconomic and political rights and freedoms for the people, and espoused a national program that would bypass the capitalist stage of development in the course of promoting fundamental social transformations in order to bring about socialism in Mongolia.

[1] The Constitution adopted in 1960 included a lengthy preamble that acclaims the successes of the revolution and notes the importance of the "fraternal socialist assistance of the Soviet Union" to growth and development in Mongolia.

[1] Areas protected under law included private ownership of one's income and savings, housing, subsidiary husbandry, personal and household articles, as well as the right to an inheritance.

[1] It detailed the nature, composition, and duties of all state organs of power, including the executive, the legislative, and the judicial at both the national and local levels.

[1] Among the basic rights guaranteed were equality irrespective of sex, racial or national affiliations, faith, social origin, and status.

"[1] Other duties involved supporting international friendship and worker solidarity "under the leadership of the Soviet Union," and teaching and practicing good social values.

[1] The Constitution could be amended by the People's Great Hural with a majority of not less than two-thirds of the delegate votes, a system that produced frequent revision.

will be repealed when the need for the existence of the state, which is the principal instrument for building socialism and communism, disappears, when it will be replaced by a communist association of working people.