Constitutionalism, legitimateness and ustavnost as legal categories

The article deals with a little-studied actual issue of Constitutional Law in Russia characterized by a scientific novelty. In the absence of a clear regulatory consolidation of the objects of normative control and ambiguities with the criteria of a legal act, in practice there are difficulties with their appeal to the appropriate court, and as a result the process of forming a judicial constitutionalism in Russia faces difficulties. The analysis is based on historical documents, laws of foreign countries and the existing legal proposition of the Constitutional Court, which had a real impact on the formation of the institute of normative control in Russia.

Constitutionalism, ustavnost, legitimateness, normative control, federal, regional and ustavniy control, the ordinary courts, Arbitration courts, the Constitutional Court of Russia, constitutional and ustavnie Federation courts