The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus is the Basic Law of the State, which has the highest legal force and direct effect throughout the country. The Constitution lays down the foundations for regulating the legal, political and economic system of the State. The Basic Law establishes the inalienable human rights and guarantees of their realization, the mutual duties of a citizen and the State, and the procedure for the formation and functioning of government bodies. The provisions of the Constitution are being developed in the current legislation.

The Constitution of Belarus was adopted on March 15, 1994 by the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus and is the first in the history of a sovereign republic and the fifth Constitution of Belarus (after the October Revolution of 1917).

In 1996, the Constitution was redrafted in a republican referendum.

The next republican referendum, which raised the issue of changing the Basic Law, was held on October 17, 2004.

By the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated October 12, 2021. No. 124-3 the Constitution has been amended regarding the holding of elections of deputies on a single voting day.

On February 27, 2022, the next republican referendum on amendments and additions to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus was held. As a result, the preamble and 85 articles were adjusted, 11 new articles appeared, and 2 articles were deleted. The Basic Law has also been supplemented with a new chapter.

Currently, the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus contains 9 sections, 9 chapters and 156 articles.

The most important constitutional norm is the provision of article 2, which defines the hierarchy of values in the country. According to this article, a person, his rights, freedoms and guarantees of their realization are the highest value and goal of society and the state.

The basic principles that permeate the norms of the Constitution include:

the rule of law;
guarantee and observance of human and civil rights;
the democratic order of government formation.
The Constitution embodies the historical experience of the formation of the Belarusian statehood. It is based on the inalienable sovereign right of the Belarusian people to independently determine their own destiny and be a full-fledged subject of the international community.

https://president.gov.by/ru/gosudarstvo/constitution