Constitutional Legal Relations and State Legal Relations: Peculiarities of the Methods of Implementation

The article investigates constitutional legal relations and state legal relations as legal relations united by the common subject of legal regulation and different in purposes and methods of legal regulation. Constitutional legal relations are considered as relations aimed at building the rule of law state, recognition, observance and protection of human rights and freedoms. State-legal relations are aimed primarily at the implementation of public interests. The author concludes that the result of formation of legal relations is significantly influenced by the applied methods of legal regulation. Constitutional legal relations are formed on the basis of the application of such methods as: 1) restriction of interference of public authorities in regulation of human rights and freedoms; 2) self-regulation on issues of own competence of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and bodies of local self-government; 3) the contractual method of regulation on matters falling within the joint competence; 4) delegation of exclusive powers to the lower level of public authority. State-legal relations differ due to the application of the following methods: 1) detailed regulation and restriction of human rights and freedoms in order to realize public interests; 2) legislative delegation of powers on issues of joint jurisdiction; 3) redistribution of powers in favor of the higher level of public authority.

The development of constitutional and state-legal relations in modern legal reality is possible only in the context of competition of applied methods of legal regulation. The constitutional norm enforced mainly by state-legal methods is implemented in state-legal relations and excludes the construction of constitutional legal relations. The prevalence of state-legal methods can lead to the construction of pseudo-parallel constitutional legal relations, i.e. legal relations that do not affect the existing legal reality. On the contrary, the preferential application of constitutional and legal methods can be considered as a guarantee of impossibility of abuse of state legal methods in the process of enforcement of public interests.

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