On November 6, 1992, at the 12th session of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Constitution of Tatarstan was adopted - the first basic law of the region in the post-Soviet period. The Constitution of the Republic became one of the first documents of this kind in the post-Soviet space: the Constitution of the Russian Federation was adopted only on December 12, 1993 in a national referendum. The adoption of the Constitution of Tatarstan was the result of a political process that began after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the acquisition of greater independence by the republics of the Russian Federation. It was preceded by a referendum on the state sovereignty of the Republic of Tatarstan, held on March 21, 1992, in which the majority of voters (81.7%) supported the status of Tatarstan as a sovereign state and subject of international law, while building relations with Russia on an equal contractual basis. The results of this referendum formed the basis for the development of the republic's constitution. The work was carried out by the Constitutional Committee of the Verkhovna Rada under the leadership of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shimeyev, who actively defended the model of "asymmetric federalism", which was actively discussed in Russia in the early 1990s, and equal contractual relations with Moscow. The development of the constitution was carried out with the active participation of the deputies of the Supreme Council, representatives of the legal community and public figures. Among the key developers of the Tatarstan Constitution were Academician Indus Tagirov, Professor Boris Zheleznov, lawyer Valentin Mikhailov (who presented an alternative project), Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Frid Mukhamchin, future Minister of Justice Albert Slavayev and many others. At the session on November 6, a lively debate developed: delegates debated the degree of sovereignty, the status of the president and the language of citizenship. As a result, the "Shimevsky" compromise option won, and implemented Tatarstan's status as a democratic legal state associated with the Russian Federation.

On November 6, 1992, at the 12th session of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Constitution of Tatarstan was adopted - the first basic law of the region in the post-Soviet period. The Constitution of the Republic became one of the first documents of this kind in the post-Soviet space: the Constitution of the Russian Federation was adopted only on December 12, 1993 in a national referendum. The adoption of the Constitution of Tatarstan was the result of a political process that began after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the acquisition of greater independence by the republics of the Russian Federation. It was preceded by a referendum on the state sovereignty of the Republic of Tatarstan, held on March 21, 1992, in which the majority of voters (81.7%) supported the status of Tatarstan as a sovereign state and subject of international law, while building relations with Russia on an equal contractual basis. The results of this referendum formed the basis for the development of the republic's constitution. The work was carried out by the Constitutional Committee of the Verkhovna Rada under the leadership of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shimeyev, who actively defended the model of "asymmetric federalism", which was actively discussed in Russia in the early 1990s, and equal contractual relations with Moscow. The development of the constitution was carried out with the active participation of the deputies of the Supreme Council, representatives of the legal community and public figures. Among the key developers of the Tatarstan Constitution were Academician Indus Tagirov, Professor Boris Zheleznov, lawyer Valentin Mikhailov (who presented an alternative project), Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Frid Mukhamchin, future Minister of Justice Albert Slavayev and many others. At the session on November 6, a lively debate developed: delegates debated the degree of sovereignty, the status of the president and the language of citizenship. As a result, the "Shimevsky" compromise option won, and implemented Tatarstan's status as a democratic legal state associated with the Russian Federation.