Varlamova, N.V. Public law representation: theoretical aspects

Abstract: Political representation is a key principle of implementation of public power in the modern states. The concept of public law representation was formed in the modern age as an institutional specification of the republican principle and the principle of the people’s (national) sovereignty, which guaranteed conditional, temporary and limited character and responsibility of political power. The article concerns with such inalienable elements of public law representation as the public law power (competence), representative bodies, and free mandate. The author analyzes the key tendencies of development of the representative rule in the current conditions, she singles out the specific features and types of public power bodies, she also provides the grounds for the statement that due to the specific type of formation and activities the collegiate representative authorities are appropriate institutions for the establishment of the primary, abstract and generally obligatory behavior rules.

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