Abstract: The article is devoted to the historical and legal study of the forms of expression of the concepts of military ideology in the constitutional provisions of the basic laws of the Soviet state and modern Russia. The object of the study is a comparison of ideological approaches related to the perception of war as a socio-political phenomenon by a person, society and the state and the army as the main instrument of its conduct. The subject of the study is the constitutional norms adopted and in force at various stages of the political and legal development of the Russian state. The scientific novelty of the presented work consists in conducting a comparative analysis of the nature of changes in views on the issue of public participation in the organization of armed defense of the state. The author considers the features of the legal regulation of military-ideological attitudes, views and values in various historical conditions. Based on the study of the provisions contained in the texts of the constitutions, the author comes to the conclusion that, regardless of the form and type of the state, foreign policy circumstances, elements of the ideology of the military sphere were reflected to one degree or another in the fundamental legal documents, which indicates their importance in the process of political and legal education of the population and the formation of its normative -the value basis.