Legal Encyclopedia. Letter O

Foundations of Constitutional Order

1. (In a narrow sense) - established by the Constitution of the organization of state power and territory. Constitutional system.

2. (in the broad sense) - a set of economic, political, social, legal, ideological, social relations arising in connection with the organization of higher authorities, the State, the relationship of the individual and the state.

The elements of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation:

1) The republican form of government;

2) The sovereignty of the Russian Federation;

3) the rights and freedoms of the individual;

4) source of power - the multinational people of Russia;

5) the supremacy of the Constitution and federal legislation;

6) A federal state structure;

7) the citizenship of the Russian Federation;

8) the division of state powers into legislative, executive and judicial branches;

9) the organization of local self-government.

O. KS RF - basic start, the principles that form the theoretical and regulatory framework of the constitutional rights of the Russian Federation.

The principles of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation -osnovopolagayuschie start defining the state of the RF device.

Summarizes the principles of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation:

1) Democracy - are characterized by the rule of the people's power; origin of state power only on behalf of the multinational people of the Russian Federation; the presence of two forms of democracy: direct and representative;

2) the priority of human values, rights and freedoms of the individual;

3) the rule of law;

4) federalism - which includes the territorial integrity of the state; the supremacy of state authority and federal system of law throughout the territory of the Russian Federation, including the territory of the Russian Federation subjects; equality of subjects of the Russian Federation to the Russian Federation as the sole bearer of the sovereignty of the state, etc .; 5) state sovereignty - includes items: state integrity, the unity of the state power system, delineation of powers between the Russian state authorities and bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation, the recognition of the equality of the peoples of Russia;

6) social character of the Russian Federation, ie Russian policy is aimed at creating conditions for a dignified life and free development of man;

7) the secular nature of the Russian state, ie, RF activity of the government and religious associations is carried out independently of each other, the state has no right to interfere in the affairs of the church;

8) The republican form of government. The peculiarity of Russia is that it is a mixed, rather than presidential or parliamentary;

9) the separation of powers;

10) political pluralism. In the Russian Federation guarantees social and political diversity, freedom of opinion and world citizens;

11) the variety of forms of ownership and freedom ekonomicheskihotnosheny.