Social and sovereign.

These two vectors of national statehood were fixed by the amendments to the Constitution adopted by the State Duma in the summer.

This is not about a watershed, but about the most important milestone in the development of a modern national state.

This was not easy, in fierce disputes and discussions about approaches and ways of development, with overcoming inertia stretching from the time of troubles, in which the Constitution arose.

It was not zeroed out, not crossed out, but transformed in accordance with the logic of the development of domestic civilization.

Raised the status and designated unconditional priority.

Needless to say, the same primacy of the social in the discussion of recent years has often been presented as a heavy burden that can be, if not completely thrown off, then made exclusively decorative.

And what a misfortune that it would alienate citizens from the state, pragmatics dictates ... But momentary pragmatics and calculation are not national or state interests, which are always for a long term.

Sovereign and social - these two vectors of the state's development are reflected in the current reform of the Constitutional Court.

The State Duma already in the second reading adopted the presidential bill, according to which changes are made to the activities of the Constitutional Court.

The powers of the court and the procedure for its formation are brought in line with the updated Constitution.

The changes are not decorative at all.

This is precisely the reform of the court, the strengthening of its significance.

According to this reform, it should become an active structure playing a major role in the life of society.

At the same time, the body is not political.

This is precisely the reason for the ban on judges from publicly expressing their dissenting opinion and criticizing the decisions of the Constitutional Court (it was introduced by a parliamentary amendment).

After all, this is not about self-presentation and not about the personal opinion of individual judges, but about the collegial verdict, which is the last word in any dispute.

This is how the important principle of the unity of the Constitutional Court is observed.

Recall that through the renewal of the Constitution, its supremacy was proclaimed in the international plane.

Unfortunately, we know too well what international law is and how various players on the world arena twist it.

They hobbled the country's sovereign development, and now all and sundry are making our country completely outlandish claims and claims beyond common sense.

From sanctions, reparations and damages to the notorious claims of Yukos shareholders.

The game is this: come up with a complaint, accuse, demand and start stamping your feet in anger ...

It is in following the amended basic law that the country will now be empowered to resolve the issue of executing decisions of interstate bodies and international courts.

As State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin noted, "if these decisions contradict the provisions of the Russian Constitution, and therefore the interests of our country, the law will help protect our values ​​and our sovereignty."

These are important words, because often while talking about international law, obligations and treaties, with a constant glance at them, we forgot about our values, our interests, putting them as if in the background.

Now we see a fundamental point not only in the legal sphere, but also in the mental one, in terms of understanding and realizing the value of one's own.

This is extremely necessary for the self-awareness of society.

Now the Constitutional Court will decide on the execution of the decision of a foreign or international court, international arbitration, which impose obligations on our country.

Decide also through the prism of domestic constitutional law.

At the beginning of the year, when preparing proposals for constitutional amendments, President Putin noted that Russia would comply with international treaties that do not contradict its Constitution.

There is nothing out of the ordinary in this, but there is an important indicator that our country has made a reversal from the utopia of orientation towards all of humanity, into which it plunged back in the perestroika years, and took the vector for its own civilizational construction.

Moreover, this is not a spontaneous decision, the course in this direction was set long ago.

So, five years ago, the Constitutional Court ruled on Russia's right not to comply with decisions of the European Court of Human Rights if they contradict the Constitution.

Now, in addition to the legal sovereign protection of the state, the Constitutional Court will also guard the legislation within the country that is centralized under the auspices of the Constitution.

One of the aspects of its activities will be the verification of the constitutionality of regional bills and laws.

He will check them at the request of the president.

All unconstitutional provisions will be excluded.

Such a direction of activity is necessary for the constitutional "stitching" of the country.

The time of legislative regional polyphony and confusion has passed and should not return.

The law, like the country, is one, therefore all lawmaking within the country should be exclusively in the constitutional system of attraction.

The social statist aspect is associated with the protection of citizens' rights, which is also the focus of the Constitutional Court.

It considers complaints of citizens, legal entities, public organizations, ombudsmen for violations of constitutional rights and freedoms, if all other possibilities of judicial protection have been exhausted.

The primacy of sovereignty, the protection of the constitutional integrity of the country, as well as the supervision of the social orientation of the state and the protection of citizens' rights - these are the main directions in the current reform of the Constitutional Court.

In this process, the role of the State Duma is also significant, which just fine-tunes the country's legislation in accordance with the updated Constitution.

Such constitutional cooperation should confirm the thesis of a new milestone in the development of national statehood with an increase in the status of both the lower house of parliament and the Constitutional Court.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.