Taeva, N.E. Transformation of norms of constitutional law under the influence of decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

Abstract: The article contains analysis of the influence of practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation upon the process of adoption, understanding and implementation of the norms of constitutional law of the Russian Federation. Special attention is paid to the influence of the constitutional control body over the legislator. The author analyzes the examples taken from the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, then she draws a conclusion that the legal practice transforms the norms of constitutional law, and their substantial qualities change. The author singles out a number of aspects of influence of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation upon the norms of constitutional law. Firstly, its decisions contain direct instructions on the need for the legislator to adopt certain constitutional legal norms. Secondly, in some of its decisions this Court in fact makes law, while not being a legislative body. Thirdly, the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation concern the procedure for the application of legal norms (territorial, temporal, based upon subject to whom it applies). Fourthly, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in its decisions establishes the correlation among the various legal norms.

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