Nikiforova, A.V. Judicial system: Influence of the acts by the constitutional justice bodies on the development of the municipal law.

Abstract: In this article the author studies the development of the municipal law by the decisions of the constitutional justice bodies in the Russian Federation in the sphere of territorial organization of municipal government, institutions of direct democracy at the local level. As a result of these studies, the author comes to a conclusion that the municipal law (both as a branch of law, and as a branch of science) has been developing and improving, and it retained certain balance between the legislation on municipal self-government, the practice of its application and the theory of municipal law, which was to a considerable degree thanks to the decisions of the constitutional justice bodies. Namely, it was thanks to the conclusions in the resolution part of the decisions, which recognized as unconstitutional some legal provisions on municipal self-government, as well as to the recommendations to the federal, regional and local legislators on the need of legislative regulation of certain social relations in the sphere of municipal self-government in order to avoid collisions and Þ ll the gaps in the legislation on municipal self-government, as well as in order to protect the rights for municipal government. Generally, they helped to bring federal and regional legislations into accord. Not being limited to this role, the legal positions of the constitutional justice bodies also provided information and knowledge for the science of municipal law, showed the acceptable and correct application of the norms in the sphere of municipal self-government, facilitated the general understanding in the sphere of municipal law, which is necessary in order to involve the citizens into the implementation of municipal government.

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