The conflict initiation and resolution rules in constitutional and municipal law

Abstract

The subject. The article is devoted to analysis and classification of different constitutional and municipal legal rules that may cause and resolve the constitutional conflicts.
The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that there is a set of constitutional and municipal legal rules with common conflict initiation nature as well as with common conflict resolution nature.
The methodology of the study includes general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, description) and legal interpretation of Russian Constitution and laws.
The main results, scope of their application.
There is a whole set of legal norms in constitutional and municipal law, that focus on the conflict component due to the conflict nature of the constitutional act itself as the basic law of the country. They need to be studied and classified due to the different content and legal nature of these rules. The author attempts to research the constitutional and municipal legal norms that may cause and resolve the constitutional conflicts, offers their classification on certain grounds, analyzes scientific researches on this topic. Constitutional and municipal legal rules that may cause and resolve the constitutional conflicts can be classified for two types depending on their content: rules generating constitutional conflicts and rules that establish methods and principles for resolving constitutional conflicts.
Conclusion. The constitutional and legal rules that give rise to constitutional and legal conflicts include the norms of constitutional law that enshrine constitutional values that are in a state of real or imaginary competition.
The norms that establish ways to resolve a constitutional and legal conflict include: 1) collision rules of constitutional and municipal law – rules determining which legal regulation should be applied to the relevant conflict legal relationship. They have a reference character and are applied only together with substantive legal norms that resolve the issue; 2) constitutional and municipal regulations governing the methods and principles for the resolu-tion of constitutional conflicts.