Kravets, I.A. Dualist monarchical constitutionalism as a conservative constitutional experiment in Russia

Abstract: The article concerns topical issues regarding understanding and terminological definition of monarchical constitutionalism in the conditions of Duma monarchy in early XX century. From the standpoint of planetary constitutional process, dualistic monarchical constitutionalism may be regarded as a type of conservative constitutional experiment close to German and Japanese forms of dualistic monarchy, early European monarchical constitutionalism, which was formed in the Empire states with strong monarchical power and authoritarian tradition of the personalization of power. The article reflects specific features of form of government within the context of typology of constitutional monarchies from the standpoint of comparative legal method, revealing the specific features of the dualistic monarchical constitutionalism in Russia in early XX century, the factors of loss of legitimacy and destruction of the government regime and statehood in the Russian Empire. The author used the methods of specific historical, comparative legal and complex analysis of the constitutional and legal acts, results of transformation of the state and legal system of the Russian Empire, as well as constitutional engineering in order to interpret completeness, consecutive and systemic character and efficiency of the constitutional experiment in early XX century. The article provides results of the conservative constitutional experiment in Russia, revealing the key elements of the system of dualistic monarchical constitutionalism from the standpoints of both political legal and systemic methods of analysis. The author defines the concept of “mixed monarchy” in order to evaluate the perspectives of formation and development of a developed form of constitutional monarchy (which was certainly parliamentary monarchy, which served as an ideal for the Russian constitutionalists at the verge of the centuries and in the years of the first Russian revolution) for Russia in early XX century.

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