Constitution of Russian Federation

The paper analyzes the problems of definition and content of the constitutional category of «managing state affairs». It is noted that the current Russian legislation and national legal science lack a monosemantic interpretation of the constitutional construction «state affairs», there is no clear system of forms of citizens’ participation in managing state affairs and their reasonable comprehensive classification.

Modern lines of development of the national legislation testify that the child occupies special position ant concerns a category of special legal subjects which actively represent itself as participants various legal relationship.. The current legislation of the Russian Federation not precisely define the legal maintenance of the concept «child», not full establishes, his or her legal status. Within the limits of the general law, it is possible to allocate special and individual statuses of the child. 

Article is devoted consideration of such form of participation of citizens of the Russian Federation in judicial authority activity as representation in qualifying boards of judges. The author analyzes legal regulation, dynamics of powers and practical activities of the given bodies of judicial community from a position of maintenance of the constitutional principle of publicity and public participation.