Chapter 4: Organization of the Commons' Convention -part 2-
4.3. Administrative Functions of the Commons' Convention
As we have already emphasized, the Commons' Convention is not merely a legislative body, but a comprehensive administrative body. Therefore, it does not have a governmental (cabinet) structure, and it also serves as an administrative organ in its own right. The Political Council plays a command post role in the administrative functions of the Commons' Convention.
As explained in the previous section, the Political Council is the executive branch of the Commons' Convention, and at the same time, it is a decision-making body that functions like a cabinet in itself. However, unlike the Cabinet, it is not an executive body independent of the legislature, but is solely an internal organ of the Commons' Convention.
The Chairperson of the Commons' Convention presides over the Political Council, and there is no separate presiding position equivalent to that of the Prime Minister or President. This is because the Political Council system emphasizes consultation. The Political Council consists of the chairpersons of the standing committees and special committees, in addition to the chairpersons of the regular and vice chairpersons.
The Council has the authority to enact decrees by delegation of law, but it also has the authority to enact independent orders without delegation of law in certain urgent cases. This is because the Political Council is an internal organization of the Commons' Convention , and therefore, independent orders are also guaranteed to be democratic in nature as decrees of the Commons' Convention itself.
On the other hand, for the Commons' Convention to properly fulfill its administrative functions, it is essential to have individual and specialized administrative executive agencies. Therefore, various administrative executive agencies are established as subordinate bodies of the Commons' Convention. Each of these agencies operates under the supervision of the appropriate standing committee.
In the Commons' Convention system, in which the government is abolished, all administrative agencies are law enforcement agencies whose main duty is to apply laws and regulations, and are not involved in policy making. Therefore, the policy research organizations (think tanks) mentioned in of this chapter are not administrative agencies, but merely research institutes that assist the Commons' Convention in policy making and legislation.
In the case of local Commons' Conventions, instead of the government offices in the current local self-government system, a local service agency under the jurisdiction of a standing committee, such as the Residents' Service Committee, is assigned to each district and is responsible for day-to-day service operations.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
