The Principle of Maintaining Citizens’ Confidence in Law and State Actions during the Practice of RF Constitutional and Statutory Courts

This article examines the final decisions of constitutional and statutory courts in RF subjects, as well as individual decisions of RF Constitutional Court and the judicial legal positions expressed in them. Judicial practice, established on the basis of control and supervision activities of constitutional justice regional bodies, allows us to consider the principle of maintaining citizens’ confidence in the law and the actions of the state as a cross-sectoral legal principle that serves as the criterion to evaluate the constitutionality of legal norms adopted outside the powers of Russian Federation on the subjects of joint jurisdiction of Russian Federation and RF subjects. However, the close relationship between the principle of citizens’ confidence maintaining in the law and the actions of the state with the general legal principles of justice, equality, legal certainty and the recognition of a person, his rights and freedoms as the highest value makes it possible to qualify this principle as a general principle of law. According to the judicial practice of the constitutional and statutory courts of RF subjects, the principle of maintaining citizens’ confidence in the law and the state actions has its own criteria, each of which can be used for the evaluation of regional constitutional justice activity.