Development of ideas of people’s representation and local self-government in the works of scientists of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law

Abstract

The article prepared for the anniversary of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law notes the contribution to the development of the theory of popular representation, as well as to the formation and development of the branch and science of municipal law of scientists, the founders of the School of Russian Constitutionalism, who earned recognition during their lifetime as classics of constitutional and municipal law science. A brief overview of the works, the author’s approaches contained in them, the points of view of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences O. Е. Kutafin, Professors E. I. Kozlova, V. I. Fadeev, N. A. Mikhaleva, B. A. Strashun on possible ways of developing science and practice in the field of popular representation and local self-government is offered. The doctrinal provisions contained in their scientific works have largely determined not only the directions of development of public law sciences, but also the strategy of constitutional development of Russia.