This new body
was to function as a parliament until the Constituent Assembly convened,
when it would give place to whatever form of parliamentary body the
Constituent Assembly might create. This Preliminary Parliament and its
functions were thus described:
This Council, in which all classes of the population will be
represented, and in which the delegates elected to the Democratic
Conference will also participate, will be given the right of
addressing questions to the government and of securing replies to
them in a definite period of time, of working out legislative acts
and discussing all those questions which will be presented for
consideration by the Provisional Government, as well as those
which will arise on its own initiative. Resting on the
co-operation of such a Council, the government, preserving, in
accordance with its pledge, the unity of the governmental power
created by the Revolution, will regard it its duty to consider the
great public significance of such a Council in all its acts up to
the time when the Constituent Assembly gives full and complete
representation to all classes of the population of Russia.
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