People’s Great Khural

…national assembly was renamed the People’s Great Khural, and its structure and activity were brought closer to those of the Supreme Soviet model in the Soviet Union.

The People’s Great Khural drafted and adopted a new constitution (Mongolia’s fourth), which went into effect on February 12, 1992. Power is divided among independent legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with human rights guaranteed by law. Capital punishment, though still on the statute books, was suspended…