"A ccording to Burma?s two supposedly superseded constitutions, that of 1947 and 1974, the Pyithu Hluttaw (the People?s Assembly) is the body charged with exercising State power. The 1989 Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law (called the Election Law), under which the 1990 elections were conducted, also provides that the duty of representatives elected in accordance with the Election Law is to form the Pyithu Hluttaw (Section 3)..."