The Constitutional Law Subject Matter in the Context of Practice of Constitutional Justice: Stability and Dynamism

Abstract

The article, based on the analysis of trends in the development of domestic constitutionalism and the jurisprudence of constitutional justice, provides for the author's understanding of the constitutional law subject matter in relation to its stability and dynamism. The issue of substantive definiteness of constitutional law is eternal in nature due to the fundamental, decisive role that constitutional law plays in the system of legal regulation. In this regard, the author substantiates an approach under which the substantive extension of the scope of constitutional legal norms is a natural consequence of new global threats to law and the need to find responses to them within the framework of systemic, intersectoral decisions that underlie harmonization of basic values of the society, namely, freedom, authority and property. The latter constitute a triune substantive essence of constitutional law and the whole system of modern constitutionalism. The dynamics of subject matter characteristics of constitutional law confirms that this represents a kind of supra-branch formation, the core of the entire legal system. Constitutional law possesses regulatory relations with all branches of law, every sector within the branch, which is evidenced by the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. In this regard, special attention is paid to the analysis of the impact of constitutional justice on the development of the subject matter characteristics of constitutional law, whereby constitutionalization of the legal system, as well as the practice of law enforcement, is ensured.