The Legislative Assembly (Russian: Законода́тельное Собра́ние Респу́блики Каре́лия, Zakonodatelnoye sobraniye Respubliki Kareliya; Finnish: Karjalan tasavallan lakiasäätävä kokous) is the Regional parliament of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It comprises fifty deputies. Chairman of the Assembly is Alexander Pereplesnin (United Russia). He succeeded Nikolay Ivanovich Levin (United Russia)
1994-2002 it was divided into two chambers: The Chamber of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly and the Chamber of the Republic of the Legislative Assembly.
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“Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
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