Estonian Citizens' Committees

Legally, the initiative centered on the prewar constitution of 1938 of independent Estonia, which postulated that the Estonian people were invested with the highest level of power in the country.

Since the structure of national and local governmental offices had been eliminated during Estonia's occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, they would need to be recreated, starting with the registration of citizens.

The primary phase of the Citizens Committees' activities came to a close when the Congress of Estonia was elected on February 24, 1990, and convened on March 11, 1990.

County committees were reorganised as departments of the Estonian Committee, founded by the Congress of Estonia, and began issuing identity documents (the so-called Rumessen passports after Vardo Rumessen) to registered citizens.

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The registration card recognising Tunne Kelam as an Estonian citizen from 1989 that was issued by the Estonian Citizens' Committee.