{"id":"constitution-my:constitution-history-1993:en","type":"webpage","title":"What the 1993 Constitution Was","abstract":"The 1993 Constitution was the first Constitution of independent Kazakhstan. It established the legal foundations of sovereignty and marked the transition from the Soviet legal order to a national constitutional system. It remained, however, a transitional document and was soon superseded by a more stable constitutional model.","author":[{"literal":"Constitution.my editorial team"}],"publisher":"Constitution.my","URL":"https://constitution.my/p/constitution-history-1993?lang=en","language":"en","issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,16]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]]},"version":"2026-06-16","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","custom":{"schema_version":"1.0","is_official_legal_source":false,"publisher_url":"https://constitution.my","date_modified":"2026-06-16","article_references":[{"number":1,"title":"State Foundations","url":"https://constitution.my/full-text?lang=en#article-1"},{"number":4,"title":"Popular Sovereignty","url":"https://constitution.my/full-text?lang=en#article-4"},{"number":5,"title":"Constitution and Applicable Law","url":"https://constitution.my/full-text?lang=en#article-5"}],"official_sources":[{"id":"constitution-1995-gov-archive","title":"Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 1995 (official archive publication)","publisher":"Gov.kz","url":"https://www.gov.kz/uploads/2020/2/11/92594e9ba28352a961ca421505b4b79a_original.146163.pdf","checked_at":"2026-07-16"},{"id":"akorda-constitutional-documents","title":"Official constitutional documents","publisher":"Akorda","url":"https://www.akorda.kz/ru/official_documents/constitution","checked_at":"2026-07-16"}]}}