The years our country was governed by this unique historical person, whose name has gone down in the modern history of Azerbaijani statehood forever, are accepted as the era of renaissance, national progress, national revival, formation of independent state. Those years encouraged formation of Azerbaijan as an independent democratic state, building a democratic and legal society based on universal values.

To reinforce state independence, establish an independent government, set up and develop state attributes, assure Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, get the country out of the war, improve citizens’ welfare, provide necessary living conditions to them were set as necessary tasks after Heydar Aliyev was elected a president. On his programme on the eve of the 1993 presidential elections the great leader declared: “Azerbaijan will choose the way of democratic development, our people will follow the path of the civil world.”

On the eve of adoption of the constitution of Azerbaijan conditions in the country were not favorable. Coup d’etat efforts replaced each other, the country was in danger of civic war. The only factor characterizing the success of the constitution was the personality of Heydar Aliyev.

On May 2, 1995, Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the membership of the commission preparing a draft constitution. In the first sitting of the commission, chaired by Heydar Aliyev, the head of state declared the parameters of the constitution. The head of state noted “… We should adopt such a constitution, which will be the main law, the historical document assuring the existence of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan on the basis of democratic principles for a long time. This is why our duty is honorable and at the same time very difficult… Our constitution should provide a basis to build a democratic, legal, secular, civil state in Azerbaijan, be the main law.”

Taking care of the coming generations, Heydar Aliyev left to his people such a constitution considered for long years. The constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, adopted in 1995, laid the foundation of a state mechanism as a democratic, secular, legal and unitary republic. As national leader Heydar Aliyev said: “The major sense of this constitution is that it ensures the absolute independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan, territorial integrity of our country, inviolability of rights of the Azerbaijani people, inviolability of every citizen’s rights and indivisibility of the Azerbaijani people, of our republic, that the power cannot be appropriated by any force.”

Identifying the legal bases to the existence of a state as a sovereign institution, the constitution stimulated Azerbaijan’s legal and political development, intensified the socioeconomic reforms implemented in the country.