Introduction to constitutional law with clarifying complex issues

In the book of the Ordinary Professor of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" M.A. Krasnov reveals the meaning and content of the most difficult to understand constitutional legal phenomena, such as the constitution, legal state, democracy, secular state, republic, etc. The fundamental categories are considered in their historical development and from the standpoint of different researchers. The author attracts figurative comparisons, metaphors, uses other techniques, so that the reader arises a visible image of the seemingly abstract concepts.
For students of legal universities studying under the programs of undergraduate and magistrates, as well as all those interested in the history of the formation of the Russian Constitution and the problems of constitutional law.
2nd edition, processed and supplemented