A Constitutional Compliance Architecture for Digital State Decision-Making in Mongolia

Boldbaatar Gonchigjav; Munkhdemberel Lundeejantsan; Odontuya Khuukhlee

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A Constitutional Compliance Architecture for Digital State Decision-Making in Mongolia

Boldbaatar Gonchigjav^*

, Munkhdemberel Lundeejantsan

, Odontuya Khuukhlee

Published in International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 9, Issue 4)

Received: 16 September 2026 Accepted: 29 September 2026 Published: 23 October 2026

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Abstract

Mongolian legal scholarship has traditionally examined constitutional supremacy, Constitutional Court (Tsets) review, and ordinary-court practice separately, leaving constitutional application as an integrated institutional system, and its extension to digital government, largely unexplored. This article reconceptualises Constitutional supremacy as a dynamic compliance system spanning the entire decision-making cycle. Using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, it analyses 117 Tsets decisions (1992-2023), 1,240 court judgments, and acts of state administrative bodies, and compares eight jurisdictions. The results reveal systemic under-application of the proportionality test (absent in 93.2% of Tsets decisions), unnamed interpretive methods (61.5%), incomplete implementation of decisions (34.2%), and marginal direct application of the Constitution by ordinary courts (5.7%). Regression analysis identifies proportionality as the strongest predictor of constitutional-application performance (r = 0.834; β = 0.421), confirming hypotheses H1 and H2. Drawing on the proportionality theories of Alexy and Barak, the article proposes a three-layered constitutional compliance architecture (foundational, instrumental, and mechanistic) and advances, as a theoretical proposition (TP1) not yet empirically tested, a Digital Constitutional Compliance Layer that embeds ex ante Constitutional checks into algorithmic public decision-making, informed by the digital-constitutionalism literature and EU regulatory instruments.

Published in	International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 9, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijls.20260904.14
Page(s)	478-488
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Constitutional Supremacy, Proportionality, Constitutional Court, Digital Constitutionalism, Algorithmic Accountabilit

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Boldbaatar Gonchigjav

Department of Business Administration, Shihihutug University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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Munkhdemberel Lundeejantsan

Department of Business Administration, Shihihutug University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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Odontuya Khuukhlee

Department of Public Law, Shihihutug University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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