决定权是宪法和法律赋予国家权力机关的一项重要职权。深刻理解和充分行使这项职权,对于加强人大建设,树立国家权力机关权威,具有重大的现实意义。本文从理论与实践相结合的角度,就地方人大行使决定权问题,谈点看法。一、决定权的概念什么是决定权?目前较为一致的看法是:决定权是国家权力机关讨论国家和社会生活中的重大事项并作出具有普遍约束力的决定、决议的权力。这是根据宪法和组织法的规定作的直接归纳,属于狭义上的决定权概念。然而,作为学科理论上的概念,应是完整的,严密的。逻辑学认为,概念既要揭示客观事物的本质属性(内涵),又要反映该事物所涉及的具体范围(外延)。上述关于决定权的概括,至少有以下几点不足: The power to make decisions is an important power given by the Constitution and the law to state organs of power. A profound understanding and full exercise of this power has great practical significance for strengthening the building of the NPC and establishing the authority of the organs of state power. This article from a combination of theory and practice point of view, on the exercise of the decision-making power of local people’s congress, talk about point of view. First, the concept of the right to decide what is the right to decide? A more consistent view is that the right to decide is the power of state organs to discuss major issues in national and social life and to make generally binding decisions and resolutions. This is a direct induction based on the provisions of the Constitution and the Organic Law, which belongs to the concept of discretion in the narrow sense. However, as the theoretical concept of discipline, it should be complete and strict. Logic holds that the concept not only reveals the essential attributes (connotation) of the objective things, but also reflects the specific scope (extension) of the things involved. The above summary of the right to decide, at least the following deficiencies: