legal consciousness

Legal Consciousness as a Sociological Construct

This article analyzes the phenomenon of legal consciousness characterized by duality. It is a part of individual ideology and a foundation osociety`s legal space. Legal consciousness is studied as a perfect latenmultilevel phenomenon of citizens’ mentality reflecting their identification, the aggregate of knowledge, motivation, values, assessment orelations to the legal reality, the practice of its implementation that regulates the individuals’ daily behavior in legal situations.

Methodological Aspects of Designing a Legal State

The article explores the problem of the designing a legal state as a part of theorizing in the field of the model of democracy for modern Russia. It is analyzed the mechanical and organic approaches to the decide this question, and also the differences between them in the context of the works of I. A. Ilyin is devoted to post-Soviet development of Russia.