The Essence of the Right to Participate in a Referendum in the Context of the Delegation of Power by the People

The right to participate in a referendum is considered by the author as systemically interrelated with the implementation of responsible delegation of power by the people. The study is based on the fact that the referendum in the construction of democracy is based on more general, basic categories — people’s sovereignty and the constituent power of the people that form modern constitutionalism. It is noted that a steadily functioning socio-political system does not require excessively frequent recourse to the institution of a referendum at the state level; its powerful potential should be used in cases where an act of implementing the constituent power of the people is required to make the most significant decisions, which are, in fact, constitutive, in many ways fateful. Russia has considerable experience in legislative regulation and practical provision of a system of guarantees of the right to participate in a referendum, which allows identifying through referendums the will of the people, marking the adoption of decisions that are particularly significant for modern state-building. This experience is certainly in demand in the modern world, and it can be used by peoples who have realized their readiness to independently solve issues that are fundamentally important to them.

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