To a question of concept and signs of the constitutional conflict

Abstract

The constitutional conflict is considered in this article as a kind of social conflict, a form of interaction of the subjects of constitutional relations. On the basis of the offered signs the author determines the constitutional conflict as the collision (antagonism, counteraction) of the subjects of constitutional relations concerning the constitutional (main) rights and personal freedoms, the public (state) power, areas of jurisdiction of the Russian Federation, subjects of the Russian Federation or the subjects of their joint jurisdiction, questions of the local value, powers of the public authorities or the local government, the territory of public institutions posing a threat to the fundamental constitutional values, norms and principles having the constitutional value (or breaking them) and mediated by the norms of constitutional right.