Consistency and Accuracy of Juridical Terminology in the Sphere of Constitutional-Legal Regulation
In the article, on the example of the consistency and accuracy of legal terminology, the requirements for the law-making activity of a modern state are subjected to scientific understanding. Through the analysis of constitutional and legal norms, the author points out the discrepancy between the terms and definitions used in the regulation of public relations and their literal meaning, both in form and in content. Cases of violation of their interconnection, interaction and consistency in the legal system of Russia are noted. Particular attention is paid to the consideration of certain norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the procedure for introducing amendments into it, as well as some areas of development of its provisions in national legislation. An assumption is made about the inadmissibility of the terminological imbalance achieved through a hasty updating and modernization of the provisions declared in it. Attention is drawn to certain inconsistencies in the legal terminology used in the normative legal acts of public authorities, whose activities are aimed at security and protection of the constitutional order, human and civil rights and freedoms, and ensuring the coordinated functioning of the state apparatus. A tendency that manifests itself in this way is characterized from the position of a constraining factor on the path of the development of Russia as a legal democratic state that ensures the functioning of civil society institutions. The author expresses his opinion and describes the ways to eliminate the identified contradictions. It is concluded that in the current conditions, as never before, all rule-making activities in the state should be focused on the ability of any member of a society to perceive correctly the instructions addressed to him without any semantic discrepancies used as a result of the conflicting formalization of legal categories.