RUSSIAN CONSTITUTIONALISM. A RETURN TO SACREDNESS

: modern Russian constitutionalism has specificity determined by Russian history, philosophy, law, in which European and Eastern traditions were transformed, creating a sovereign Russian statehood over many centuries. The study of its modern model is updated by the process of adoption of constitutional amendments that formed new institutions and gave a different meaning to previously existing ones. This predetermines interest in the study of the legal foundations of domestic constitutionalism, contextually connected with philosophical conceptual ideas of understanding law as a significant value. Target: formation of a new element of the paradigm of constitutionally significant values ?? the sacred/profane system. Objectives: study the formation of sacred values ??and their reflection in constitutional documents and legal science. Methods : historical-legal and formal-legal. Results : substantiation of the importance of efforts to strengthen sacred values ??for strengthening Russian statehood. Conclusions : the projection of the social system sacred/profane into law has not yet been studied. At the same time, such research is relevant within the framework of concepts that define the interaction of the individual, society and governmen