Legal Encyclopedia. Letter W

Zemsky Sobor

- Caste representative body of the state, which included representatives of the boyars, the nobility and the propertied of the urban population.

ZS played both the legislative and executive role.

First ZS was convened in 1549, and they lasted until 1684

Classification cathedrals:

1) consultative and electoral councils;

2) a method of convening:

a) convened by the king;

b) convened by the king on the initiative of the population;

c) convened at the initiative of estates or classes, in the absence of the king;

g) election to the kingdom.

The composition ZS were king, Boyar Duma, the Holy Synod headed by Metropolitan (patriarch), knights, townsmen, peasants chernososhnye present at the councils only in 1613 and 1682), combined into a single group and the serving tAX population, members of certain social groups

(Chieftains of the Cossacks, the head of the archers, etc.).

Convening ZS carried out the recruiting of Merit, which contained the agenda items, the number of elected.

The competence of the ZS included:

1) The election of a new king to the throne, and a new dynasty;

2) The supreme legislative power;

3) codification;

4) issues of war and peace;

5) church dispensation;

6) Tax Administration;

7) internal management, which included questions about the maintenance and development of the domestic economy.

Matters within the competence of ZS discussed by estates, and then accepted by the entire ZS on the Red Square in Moscow, in the Patriarch's chambers or the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, and later - in the Golden House or dining room hut.

ZS is a means of strengthening the royal power, the formation of autocracy in the State. As strengthened royal power, weakened the value ZS. Subsequently ZS disappeared as a result of the fact that they no longer need.