This final paper of a Master of Science deals with the insight into the course of procedures of Lithuanian parliament. The beginning was in 1918-1919 in the form of the Council of the State. The action of regulation were the fundamental laws and statutes of the Provisional Constitution of Lithuania. The Council of the State was formed differently. Due to historical circumstances it was formed not by the way of general election and couldn’t be considered as the Seimas. But at that time it was the only institution in power having the function of the parliament and legislature. Thus the starting point of the research into the parliament procedures could be justified. The paper deals only with the main parliamentary procedures: 1) The status of the member of the parliament (the rights, duties and the responsibilities) regulating the legal status, 2) procedures related to the control of the Government and 3) the legislation. The norms of the procedure are brought into action in 2 legal laws. The search was based on two of them: the Constitution and the Statute of the Seimas. The analysis was done applying the historical, comparative, classification and generalization methods and as an auxiliary method a descriptive method enabling to produce the selected data for the analysis because during the period from 1918 to 1940. According to the reflection of parliament procedures and political events of this period, how the State developed its democracy, three courses of parliamentary... [to full text]