Sources of law in the Russian Federation - the basis for the activities of the state and society

The long history of law has developed a number of forms of expressing the legislative will of the state. And each of them chose the most acceptable sources of law for their management system. In the Russian Federation, they mean a set of normative acts.

General and special sources

Legislation of Russia is multifaceted and has its own special structure. This situation in the legal sphere is due to the fact that sources of law in the Russian Federation have an ambiguous territorial effect. That is why it is customary for experts in the field of regulatory regulation to divide all sources into two parts: general and special.

The general part is of paramount importance for the life of Russia. That is why it is customary to include the following acts in this circle:

- The Constitution is the basic document on which all other legislative acts should be based in theory. It follows logically that the spread of the Constitution is carried out throughout Russia.

- Federal laws - these include constitutional laws (a special kind, designed to amend the current text of the Constitution). They also operate throughout the territory, but have a subordinate position in relation to the previous act.

- Acts of the President - are of a directing nature with regard to the external and internal development of the state. Also have a common territorial significance.

- Acts of the Government and its structural elements - as a rule, these sources of law in the Russian Federation are limited not so much by the territorial characteristic as by the sphere of life activity. Therefore, they only matter in the area for which they were adopted.

To the group of special sources jurists include the following:

- intergovernmental agreements obliged to be executed on the territory of Russia;

- Acts of the subjects of the federation, they are local - are intended for functioning only in the territory of a strictly defined subject and are accepted by authorized bodies on the ground.

The last sources of law in the Russian Federation are placed in a separate group because of their cardinal differences from the main forms of expression of law listed above. Thus, the text of international treaties is only partially compiled by Russia, and local acts have a strictly limited effect on a relatively small part of the country.

Use of the aggregate in a particular industry

Such a broad list of acts as sources of law is not necessarily fully involved in one industry. To be convinced of this quite simply on the example of civil and insurance law.

Thus, the sources of insurance law include three groups of normative acts:

- federal laws, among which are the Tax and Civil Code, as well as a special law "On the organization of insurance business in the Russian Federation";

- local acts of the insurer;

- customs accepted in insurance activities.

Strictly speaking, the last two types of sources can act as such only if they do not directly contradict the first.

But a more complex structure was created in a different branch of legislation. Thus, the system and sources of civil law are so closely interrelated that the structure of the industry is transferred to a combination of sources. Accordingly, the whole of the whole set of sources of law of Russia. To the special - "auxiliary" forms, such as: the customs of business turnover, business practices and law enforcement practice.

And, consequently, each branch of law relies only on those sources that best meet the effective regulation of the sphere of relations in question.