Constitutional judicial control as a means of directly ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens

Abstract

The article offered to the reader is devoted to the study of the institution of constitutional judicial control as a means of directly ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens. The authors argue that the institution of specialized judicial control is an integral element in ensuring the balance of the branches of government, providing a system of checks and balances in a democratic state based on the rule of law, especially in the context of a “legal explosion” and active juridification of public relations. The latter necessitates the existence of an effective mechanism of constitutional and control activities for the observance of the rule of law, both the procedure for adopting normative legal acts, and the compliance of their provisions with the content of the Basic Law of the state in order to prevent violations of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, as the main task of balanced activity of all branches of government. Combining normative control and “advisory” functions in their activities, as well as interpreting constitutional provisions, specialized bodies of constitutional control make decisions that, in fact, become the “standard” of law enforcement and fundamentally affect the legal policy of the state in the field of protecting human rights and freedoms and citizen. Special attention is paid to the empirical analysis of the resolutions of the supreme body of judicial constitutional control of the Russian Federation, as well as a number of foreign bodies of constitutional justice, in the field of protection and restoration of violated constitutional rights of citizens in the framework of the a posterior abstract and specific normative control, as well as a priori normative control, which is a novelty of domestic legislation.