The Family as a Constitutional Value in the Russian Federation

Abstract

In the article the authors cover the problem of the constitutional and value content of the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, in particular, concerning the definition of the content of the constitutional-legal status of such an important institution as the family in the Russian Federation. The main task of the authors was to determine the content of the concept of constitutional axiology, to identify its structure in the form of a system of values of the modern rule of law, the central place of which is assigned to the family. The analysis is related to the arguments about the value approach both to constitutional law and to the institution of the family, revealing the features of existing legal controversies regarding the theory of the development of constitutional law through the prism of value categories that differ depending on the content and structural expression through the relevant elements. The main difficulty was precisely to extract from the text a strictly regulated normative legal act, such as the Constitution of the Russian Federation, a real system of constitutional values and the alignment of the corresponding hierarchy with respect to each other. Authors’ theories regarding the consideration as constitutional values, such as human and citizens’ rights and freedoms, parliamentarism, economic freedom, life, human health, etc. were considered, but the most important, in the opinion of the authors, is the value of the family, human rights and the citizen for its creation, the birth of children and other related benefits. Particular attention in the research paper was paid to the consideration of constitutional axiology as an independent scientific direction, an analysis of the conceptual apparatus was made, an attempt was made to determine the place in a system of related disciplines, for example, philosophy.