The degree of constitutional legal relationship study in modern legal science

1990-2015 were the formative years for constitutional legal relations in the Russian Federation which were developing irregularly taking into account both historical and cultural traditions. To define the degree of previous study of constitutional legal relations the author analyzed some doctoral theses from the Unified Catalogue of the Russian State Library, scientific publications in the leading periodical literature which focus on the problems of constitutional law, scientific publications from 1999 to 2015 and came to the conclusion that the theory of constitutional legal relations has received little attention. However, during the above period Russia experienced significant state and legal changes that influenced the development of constitutional legal relations. The questions of constitutional relations' development are still of interest for modern researchers who pay great attention to their importance and development perspectives. The subject- matter of modern research is definite constitutional legal relations and the activity of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Some works deal with constitutional legal regulation of adjacent relations. It is worth noting that the most important public relations in Russia have obtained a basic constitutional legal regulation and it is necessary to define their place in the system of constitutional legal relations. Moreover, there are general constitutional legal relations which are characterized by the absence of a definite subject of legal relations. Such relations take place between a person and the state, federation and the subject of federation and among the highest bodies of state power. The theoretical basis of constitutional legal relations is studied in fragments together with their characteristics. The formation of doctrines about constitutional legal relations at the beginning of the century started with the examination of their significance and peculiarities whilst the theoretical basis of the doctrines was formed in the second part of the century. Thus, as far as the degree of the constitutional legal relationship study is concerned we can conclude the following: firstly, taking into account a wide range of subjects of constitutional legal relations and various connections between them, modern researchers study their legal status and concrete legal relations; secondly, constitutional legal relations are considered to be a kind of public legal relations; thirdly, only separate elements in the system of constitutional legal relations are under study; fourthly, no complex study of constitutional legal relations has been done yet.

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