Ideological and Value Fundamentals of Constitutional Regulation of Entrepreneurial Activity

Abstract

The aim of the study is to identify the features of constitutionalizing the ideological and value fundamentals for conducting entrepreneurial activity. The stages of the constitutional regulation of entrepreneurial activity have been distinguished, it has been determined that the constitutions of any «generation» determined some or other value orientations of functioning of economic relations. It is noted that constitutionalizing of values of economic activity is not a feature of modern constitutions — many of the constitutions of the second «generation» contained provisions reflecting the ideological and value basis for conducting business activities. The article also considers peculiarities of enshrining of ideological and value bases of entrepreneurial activity at the present stage of constitutional construction in Russia. It is concluded that constitutionalizing the categories that have an ideological-value coloring, though complicates the design of constitutional regulation, but performs the constitution’s programmatic function.