Public Representation Relations as Subject of Constitutional and Legal Regulation

Abstract

The peculiarity of constitutional law as a branch of law lies in the ongoing transformation of its subject. The sphere of relations governed by constitutional law may expand and contract. In the Russian constitutional doctrine, there are two main traditions of explaining this feature. The classical approach to the definition of the subject of constitutional law considers it as unified and unchanged, while the content of the industry is diverse and dynamic. The postclassical approach is based on the multiplicity of relations that make up the subject of the industry, not opposing the subject of the industry to its content. Common to both traditions is the inclusion in the content of the subject of the branch of public authority relations, and the construction of the legal theory of public authority as a subjective right allows including relations of public representation in the subject sphere of constitutional law. Public representation acts as a mandatory legal condition for the publicity of government, the distinction between public and corporate interests in the process of its implementation. In the modern state, public representation is systemic; it covers the types, forms, levels of public representation, which explains the systematic nature and diversity of the relevant norms of constitutional law.