Constitutional right of citizens to initiate amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation

The article describes a new form of democracy – direct citizen participation in the all-Russian voting on the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Justifying this form of direct democracy, the authors suggest to regulate all-Russian voting in the Federal law “On the Procedure for the Adoption and Entry into Force of Amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation" or in a different specific Federal law”. The high degree of legitimacy of the adopted amendments to the basic law of the country is confirmed by large-scale public surveillance of the legality, openness, and security of voting during the coronavirus infection. The leading coordination role in organizing public monitoring of all-Russian voting belongs to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and public chambers of Russian regions. In the article it is suggested to regulate public surveillance as a form of public control over elections and voting in the Federal law “On the Bases of Public Control in the Russian Federation”, extending its effect to electoral public relations.

Keywords

All-Russian voting, form of democracy, legitimation of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, public surveillance, public chambers in the system of public control

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14.10.2020

Publication date

18.12.2020

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35084

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GOST	Chebotarev G. Constitutional right of citizens to initiate amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2020. – Issue 12 C. 7-15 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S102694520012727-0-1 (circulation date: 25.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520012727-0
MLA	Chebotarev, Gennady "Constitutional right of citizens to initiate amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation." Gosudarstvo i pravo 12 (2020):7-15. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520012727-0
APA	Chebotarev G. (2020). Constitutional right of citizens to initiate amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Gosudarstvo i pravo (12), pp.7-15 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520012727-0

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