LEGAL RESEARCH MENTALITY AS THE BASIS OF THE NATIONAL LAW AND PUBLIC-DOMINEERING ORGANIZATION XXI CENTURY
The paper presents an analysis of a number of the essential aspects of national legal mentality as a major factor of studying law and the state of any particular nation. The authors trace the evolution of scientific ideas about the nature of mentality in general and in particular the legal mentality. In this regard, the article examines a broad source base: the works of Western and Russian researchers in different years, the ideas which can and should be involved in the modern state legal and political discourse. The author proves that the content of the legal mentality defines a set of availability and predisposition of the individual to act, think, feel, perceive various phenomena, evaluating them as positive or negative, in the public-legal sphere. In this aspect, it is proved that the legal mentality should be studied through a selection of its architectonic elements: political and legal paradigm of legal thinking style, the type of socio-legal and predpravovogo interaction of subjects. The paper focuses on the fact that the creation and the laws should be analyzed on a national mental space (the universe), which is impossible to understand the true nature and specificity of many factors destructive actions of regulatory legal acts.