CHAPTER IX. PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONING OF THE STATE ORGANS
ARTICLE 68
The State organs are formed and engage in their activity based on the principles of socialist democracy, which are expressed in the following rules:
- all the representative organs of the State’s power are elective and replaceable;
- the masses control the activity of the State agencies, their deputies, delegates and officials;
- those elected are obligated to render an account of their performance, and may be recalled from their positions at any time;
- every State organ develops in a far-reaching manner, within its jurisdiction, initiatives aimed at taking advantage of the resources and possibilities which exist on a local level and strives to include the social and mass organizations in its work;
- decisions of superior State organs are compulsory for inferior ones;
- inferior State organs are responsible to superior ones and must render accounts of their work;
- freedom of discussion, criticism and self-criticism and subordination of the minority to the majority prevail in all collegiate State organs.
