Rule: As a form of administration, the state is composed of these three systems:

1) Laws

2) State Institutions

3) Local Administrations

The state’s legislative organ is sovereign. The People’s Council (Halk Maslahaty) is the Legislative organ of the Türkmenistan state. Government is the executive organ and is regulated by laws made by the sovereign state.

Türkmenistan is a democratic, law-based and secular state, in which the rule of the state is implemented in the form of a presidential republic.

Türkmenistan has ultimate and complete control of its territory and independently conducts its domestic and foreign policy. The state of Türkmenistan is unitary and indivisible.

To defend the independence and territorial integrity of Türkmenistan and to ensure independent functioning of the legislative, executive and judiciary branches are the fundamental duties of the state.

The People are the sole source of power in Türkmenistan. Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the nation. The People of Türkmenistan exercise their sovereignty directly or through representative bodies.

No part of the People nor any organization, institution or individual has the right to appropriate power in the state.

Human beings are the highest value of the society and state in Türkmenistan.