The current Constitution of Transnistria was approved by national referendum on 24 December 1995, and signed into law by the President of Transnistria on 17 January 1996. As part of the country's move towards market based reforms, it was modified on 30 June 2000. A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite (from Latin plebiscita, a decree of the Concilium Plebis) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The President of Transnistria is the highest elected official of Transnistria, a small country which declared independence from Moldova in 1990. ... January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

The constitution provides for a separation of powers between judicial, legislative, and executive branches. It names Russian, Ukrainian and Moldavian as the three national languages of the republic, grants religious freedom, and grants every citizen freedom of speech and the right to property. It further establishes Transnistria as an independent sovereign country with a multiparty democracy and a market economy. The separation of powers (or trias politica, a term coined by French political thinker Montesquieu) is a model for the governance of the state. ... The judiciary, also referred to as the judicature, consists of justices, judges and magistrates among other types of adjudicators. ... Chamber of the Estates-General, the Dutch legislature. ... Under the doctrine of the separation of powers, the executive is the branch of a government charged with implementing, or executing, the law. ... Moldovan is the official name for the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova and in the territory of Transnistria. ... Freedom of religion is the individuals right or freedom to hold whatever religious beliefs he or she wishes, or none at all. ... A public demonstration Freedom of speech is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies, where it is understood to outlaw censorship. ... // Use of the term The concept of property or ownership has no single or universally accepted definition. ... For other uses, see Transnistria (disambiguation). ... Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme political (e. ... A multi-party system is a type of party system. ... A market economy (aka free market economy and free enterprise economy) is an economic system in which the production and distribution of goods and services takes place through the mechanism of free markets guided by a free price system rather than by the state in a planned economy. ...

See also

• Politics of Transnistria

Transnistria is a de facto independent region of the Republic of Moldova in Eastern Europe. ...

External links

• Constitution of Transnistria (Russian)
• Constitution of Transnistria (English)