A Central Executive Committee is a governing body with executive power of various parties, governments, or private organizations:
- Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in 1922–1938
- Central Executive Committee of Kuomintang, a political party in Taiwan
- Central Executive Committee of People's Action Party, ruling party in Singapore
- All-Russian Central Executive Committee
- All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
- Central Executive Committee of Soviets (Councils) of Romanian Front, Black See Fleet, and Odessa Oblast, known better as Rumcherod
- Central Executive Committee of Soviets (Councils) of Sibiria, known better as Centrosibir
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“The Federal Constitution has stood the test of more than a hundred years in supplying the powers that have been needed to make the Central Government as strong as it ought to be, and with this movement toward uniform legislation and agreements between the States I do not see why the Constitution may not serve our people always.”
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