A New Stage in the Development of “Government Constitutionalism”

Russian researchers identify such a phenomenon as governmental constitutionalism. It is a set of ideas coming from the ruling group concerning the problems of constitutionalism and the practice of their application in law-making and law enforcement. The goal of «government constitutionalism» is to preserve the power of the ruling group by covering it with constitutional clothes. Declarations that have to please the population, fill the constitutional act. The implementation of «governmental constitutionalism» results in appearing a contradictory constitutional act. False constitutional forms can fill it. To spread the ideas of governmental constitutionalism, there emerges a special mechanism.