конституционный принцип

Introduction. The article is devoted to the consideration of the essence of the constitutional principle of equality of rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen regardless of their attitude to religion. Discussion. The author of the article made an attempt to determine the legal nature of the constitutional principle of equality of rights and freedoms of man and citizen, regardless of their attitude to religion, to define. The criterion of discrimination is “attitude to religion”.

The article deals with the theoretical issues of classifying personal and civil rights and freedoms as constitutional. The scope of consideration includes the two main positions on defining a constitutional right and constitutional law legal relations. The ways of constitutionalizing the principle of the personal and civil rights and freedoms equality irrelevant of the language in the Russian and U.S. constitutional law are analyzed.