Political and legal ideal in the B.N. Chicherin''s concept
The article deals with the issues related to the search for the ideal political and legal structure of the state. The relevance of the topic is due to the search for the development of civil society and the establishment a rule-of-law state. Appeal to the classic works expands the theoretical base of the object of study. The paper analyzes in detail the scientific works of the Russian philosopher, lawyer B.N. Chicherin in the field of legal philosophy, jurisprudence. In his conception of the state-legal structure, he proceeds from the metaphysical and religious principles. As a result, B.N. Chicherin comes to the concept of protective liberalism. Given the impossibility of building an ideal political and legal structure, this model seems to be the most optimal for him. The author used comparative legal and system-structural methods of analysis as research methods. The materials of the article are of interest to specialists dealing with problems of government.