Constitutional and legal status of the parliaments of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (comparative aspect)

Purpose: This study aims to explore the ways of forming chambers of parliaments, to identify the general and particular in the ways of forming the upper and lower chambers of parliaments of the republics of Central Asia, to determine the functional importance of the legislative bodies in these republics. Methodology: Dialectical, formal-logical, historical-analytical, structural-functional. Among the special scientific methods in the study were used historical and legal, comparative legal and formal legal methods. Results: This study discusses the main provisions of the constitutional and legal status of the parliaments of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Different characteristics of the parliamentary systems of all three Central Asian republics were analyzed, from the difference in powers to the constitutional and legal status of deputies. It is noted that in the studied states there were no traditions of «pre-Soviet» law, but the ideas of national independence were eventually personified and associated with the national leader, particularly, the president of the republic...