SOVIET CONSTITUTION
Five-Year Parliaments
FRANCHISE TO WORKERS (Received 3, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. The “News Chronicle’s” Moscow correspondent reports that the draft ot the new Soviet constitution provides for a Parliament to be elected every five years, consisting of a lower house of 600 members, where all legislation will be initiated, and an upper house of 200 members. Franchise will be granted all workers, including clergymen and former Tsarist officials who Lave hitherto teen disfranchised. Parliament will assemble twice annually for u period of 60 days for each session.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 144, 3 June 1936, Page 7
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