The nature and properties of the Constitution

Representatives from various law schools in different ways characterize the essence of the constitution. School of natural law sees it as a kind of social contract, normativisty - the higher, the basic rule, institutionalists - the statute is not only the state but also the corporate organization ...

The value of the constitution

On the question of the meaning of the constitution for the country, there are different views. During the struggle against royal absolutism in the past, and in some countries of the East and now the ideologues of the struggle for democracy, based on the voluntarist concepts, give the constitution ...

The structure of the constitution

Legal constitution can be a single document (it is consolidated or codified, Constitution). Such is the vast majority of the constitutions of the countries of the world (China, 1982, Papua - New Guinea in 1975, Brazil in 1988, Ukraine in 1996, and others). Sometimes, however, an amendment to the ...

The concept of constitution

The term "constitution" (from the Latin word constitutio - establishment, the statement) was used more ancient thinkers. Was the title of one of the types of decrees of the Roman emperors. In feudal times, and used the phrase "A principal Act", which is now used as an analogue ...

The main trends in modern science of constitutional law

At present, this science there are two main areas Conventionally, they can be called of radical and liberal. Radicalist direction is basically the works of Marxist scholars (in Lenin, the Bolshevik interpretation of Marxism), the works of the so-called revolutionary democrats who defend the socia ...

Development of knowledge of constitutional law

In contrast to the current constitutional law the science of it - it's not a set of rules and reasoning, hypothesis, the findings of scientists. The material is presented not by laws and other legal acts, and a huge number of books, articles and reports in many languages. Science studies ...