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Lafitsky V.I. Law as a Supreme Constitutional Value (Essay of Historical and Comparative Law Research)

Abstract: The article describes the genesis of the formation and the constitutional embodiment of the idea of law as a supreme constitutional value in the fundamental laws of the states of common law, continental law and religious traditions of law. It analyses general and peculiar features and the prospects of the development of its main forms.


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rule of law, legal state (rechtsstaat; l’Etat de droit); supremacy and higher force of the religious law, common law, continental law, religious traditions of law, constitutions, constitutional values, constitutional construction, principles of the constitution, comparative law.


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