Law of the Russian Federation on the amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation: evolution of legal properties

Abstract

The paper, on the basis of the analysis of legislation, the RF Constitutional Court jurisprudence, as well as practice of law-making on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, describes the process of evolution of legal properties of the law under consideration. The paper investigates such legal properties of the Law of the Russian Federation on the Amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation as legal force, the subject of the legal regulation, the procedure for adoption and entry into force. The author believes that any change of these legal properties has an impact on the legal properties of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and primarily on its stability. The paper draws special attention to the Law of the Russian Federation on Amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation as of MArch 14, 2020, No. 1-FKZ “On improvement of regulation of certain issues of organization and functioning of public power.” According to the author, there was another transformation of the legal properties of the Law on Amendment. This transformation concerns the order of its entry into force. Provisions of the Law of the Russian Federation on Amendment to the Constitution adopted in 2020 contain both norms that amend the constitutional text and norms not intended for inclusion in the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation that are technical and transitional in nature. In this regard, the author deals with the question whether the Law on Amendement itself may establish additional conditions for its entry into force other than those provided for by the federal legislation.