Asutav Kogu (Constituent Assembly of Estonia)

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Asutav Kogu (the Constituent Assembly of Estonia) was the representative body elected in 1919 that drafted and adopted Estonia’s first constitution and laid the foundations of the independent Estonian state.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf constituent assembly
legislative body
adoptedDocument Constitution of Estonia (1920) NERFINISHED
Land reform legislation of Estonia NERFINISHED
appliesToJurisdiction Republic of Estonia NERFINISHED
capitalOfLegislatureLocation Tallinn NERFINISHED
conflictContext post-World War I settlement in Eastern Europe
country Estonia
countryOfOrigin Republic of Estonia NERFINISHED
dissolved 1920
electionDate 1919-04-05
1919-04-07
electoralSystem proportional representation
endTime 1920-12-20
firstSessionDate 1919-04-23
followedBy I Riigikogu NERFINISHED
hasElectoralFranchise men and women over 20 years of age
hasRole adopting constitution
drafting constitution
establishing foundations of Estonian statehood
founding legislative body of Estonia
hasTypeOfElectorate universal suffrage
inception 1919
jurisdiction Estonia NERFINISHED
languageOfName English
Estonian
legislativeBodyFor Republic of Estonia NERFINISHED
legislativePeriod 1919–1920
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Tallinn NERFINISHED
numberOfMembers 120
officialName Asutav Kogu NERFINISHED
Constituent Assembly of Estonia NERFINISHED
Eesti Asutav Kogu NERFINISHED
partOf history of Estonia
politicalContext Estonian War of Independence NERFINISHED
precededBy Provisional Government of Estonia NERFINISHED
presidingOfficer August Rei NERFINISHED
Otto Strandman NERFINISHED
replacedBy Riigikogu NERFINISHED
replaces Maapäev NERFINISHED
significance created democratic constitutional order in Estonia
laid foundations of independent Estonian state
significantEvent adoption of the first Constitution of Estonia
implementation of radical land reform in Estonia
startTime 1919-04-23
timePeriod interwar period

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Riigikogu historicalPrecursor Asutav Kogu (Constituent Assembly of Estonia)
Constitution of the Republic of Estonia adoptedBy Asutav Kogu (Constituent Assembly of Estonia)
this entity surface form: Constitutional Assembly of Estonia