Abstract
The study’s objective is to reflect on the cultural and legal experience of the United States Supreme Court as the oldest body of constitutional justice, with its long legal tradition, which seems essential for states undergoing constitutional law reform. The study used general scientific methods of analogy, classification, typology, systematization, analysis, and others, as well as special scientific methods such as systematic, functional, historical, the study of judicial practice (which included observation and description), the method of comparative law, etc., which allowed to present the views of the authors, and thus to achieve the objective of the study. The results and novelty of the work are to identify the cultural and legal significance of the activities of the highest judicial instance of the United States in the formation of the legal culture of American society. The authors address the genesis of the cultural and legal aspects of the U.S. Supreme Court, which served as the basis for the formation and implementation of constitutional rights and freedoms in the American state.
Highlights
At present, legal culture and legal consciousness issues are more relevant than ever in the changing under the influence of various circumstances, state, and legal life
The level of democracy in the modern state is proportional to the legal culture of society, which is characterized by the level of democratic institutions, legal consciousness, implementation of the rights and freedoms of citizens, depends on several economic, political, social factors and spiritual-cultural sphere of society, which undoubtedly entails the relevance of the study of factors of legal culture formation, its elements, especially when it comes to the experience of the oldest judicial body in the world
It should be noted that the authors reveal the cultural and legal significance of the U.S Supreme Court through the most significant areas of its functioning, beginning with the formation of the Court, the requirements for judges, their dissenting opinions, and certain categories of disputes involving human rights, which are of the highest value
Summary
Legal culture and legal consciousness issues are more relevant than ever in the changing under the influence of various circumstances, state, and legal life. The level of democracy in the modern state is proportional to the legal culture of society, which is characterized by the level of democratic institutions, legal consciousness, implementation of the rights and freedoms of citizens, depends on several economic, political, social factors and spiritual-cultural sphere of society, which undoubtedly entails the relevance of the study of factors of legal culture formation, its elements, especially when it comes to the experience of the oldest judicial body in the world. Legal culture is a part of the general culture of a person and society. The legal culture of the United States, among other things, is the result of the historically established legal practice of this state and, above all, its superior court – the Supreme Court, in the activities of which the legal culture deserves a separate study, having acquired a specific content
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