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Bhutan Legal Basis
Bhutan does not have a written constitution or organic
laws.
The 1907 document submitted by the monastic and government
leaders
was an agreement only to establish an absolute hereditary
monarchy.
Bhutan's only legal or constitutional basis is the 1953
royal
decree for the Constitution of the National Assembly. The
1953
constitution set forth eighteen succinct "rules" for the
procedures
of the National Assembly and the conduct of its members.
The May
1968 revision reiterated and elucidated some of the
eighteen rules
but revised others. Beginning in 1969, the powers of the
speaker of
the National Assembly were strengthened, and the Druk
Gyalpo's veto
power was eliminated.
Data as of September 1991
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