The Mechanism of Amending the Constitution in Russia and Foreign Countries

Student: Kuriapina Tatiana

Educational Programme: Public Law (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2016

In this master thesis discussed in detail the existing methods of amendig the existing constitutions in the world, revealed the limits of the possible changes of the constitutions; the role of authorities of judicial constitutional control in the process; reviewed and analyzed the procedure and the established practice of the amendments and changes to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and also describes the main features of the procedure and the experience of amending foreign constitutions, in the example of Germany and the USA.

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