Political and Legal Factors of the Legitimization of the Russian Autocracy and the Medieval Model of Legality at the Zemsky Sobor in 1613
https://doi.org/10.25205/2542-0410-2024-20-1-15-23
Abstract
The article reveals the historical and legal prerequisites for the formation of legality as one of the leading vectors of the legal policy of the first Romanovs. Based on a comparison of sources of knowledge of the law of the Time of Troubles, reflecting the political and legal realities of a number of electoral councils, the author comes to the conclusion about the weakness of the democratic tendency of the “zemstvo principle”, whose representatives initially focused on the traditional idea of the special status of the monarch and the priority of nominal decrees in all areas of legal regulation.
About the Author
E. S. Sokolova
Ural State Law University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena S. Sokolova, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor
Yekaterinburg
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Sokolova E.S. Political and Legal Factors of the Legitimization of the Russian Autocracy and the Medieval Model of Legality at the Zemsky Sobor in 1613. Juridical science and practice. 2024;20(1):15-23. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/2542-0410-2024-20-1-15-23
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