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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Юридические науки</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2337</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-9001</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">16087</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2337-2017-21-1-28-52</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Mechanism of Constitutional Lawmaking at the United States of America as an Expression of Law Convergence</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Механизм конституционного правотворчества в США как проявление конвергенции в праве</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Petrova</surname><given-names>Ekaterina A</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Петрова</surname><given-names>Екатерина Алексеевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>kate_petrova78@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Ivanovo State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Ивановский государственный университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2017-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 21, NO1 (2017)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 21, №1 (2017)</issue-title><fpage>28</fpage><lpage>52</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2017-05-19"><day>19</day><month>05</month><year>2017</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2017, Petrova E.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2017, Петрова Е.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2017</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Petrova E.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Петрова Е.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/16087">https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/16087</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In the article the author analyzes the specificity of the constitutional lawmaking mechanism in the United States in the context of the combination of various lawmaking forms, including those that typical for different legal traditions. The uniqueness of the American legal system is that it combines the features of both common and continental law and so it has integrate nature. The author interprets constitutional lawmaking as the activity of competent lawmaking authorities on creation a constitution as the act of a special kind. The mechanism of constitutional lawmaking covers a system of interrelated elements (the static aspect) and successive stages (the dynamic aspect), providing the establishment and objectification of the constitutional norms in the form of an appropriate constitutional act. Converging nature of the American constitutional lawmaking mechanism has two aspects. The first aspect is connected with the specifics of adoption of the US Constitution. Initially in the mechanism of constitutional lawmaking the instrumentation of a treaty lawmaking has been involved. However the result of it was not an international treaty in the traditional sense, but a normative legal act with the supreme legal force. The second aspect represents a further development of the constitutional provisions through Constitution amendments (which is typical for continental constitutional tradition) and through the judicial constitutional lawmaking which is peculiar for common law tradition. The judicial constitutional lawmaking is carried out through the constitutional doctrines of the U.S. Supreme Court by which the constitutional norms are adopted without formal changes to the varying social conditions. It is concluded that the mechanism of constitutional lawmaking in the United States according to the integration nature of the American legal system expresses the law convergence because it combines three forms of lawmaking technique (contractual, legislative and case-law) and so far provides the best legal result.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В статье рассматривается специфика механизма конституционного правотворчества в США в контексте сочетания различных форм правотворческой деятельности, в т.ч. свойственных разным правовым традициям. Уникальность американской правовой системы заключается в том, что она вобрала в себя черты как общего права, лежащего в ее основе, так и права континентального, приобретя тем самым комплексный характер. Конституционное правотворчество трактуется автором как осуществляемая компетентными правотворческими субъектами деятельность по созданию конституции как акта особого рода. При этом механизм конституционного правотворчества охватывает систему взаимосвязанных элементов (статический аспект) и последовательных стадий (динамический аспект), обеспечивающих создание и объективацию конституционных норм в форме соответствующего конституционного акта. Конвергенционный характер механизма конституционного правотворчества в США проявляется в двух аспектах. Первый аспект связан со спецификой принятия Конституции США. Так, в механизме конституционного правотворчества изначально был задействован инструментарий договорного правотворчества, однако результатом его стал не международный договор в его традиционном понимании, а нормативный правовой акт, обладающий высшей юридической силой. Второй аспект отражает дальнейшее развитие конституционных положений через внесение поправок в текст Конституции (что свойственно для континентальной конституционной традиции), а также и преимущественно через присущее общему праву судебное конституционное правотворчество. Последнее осуществляется через конституционные доктрины Верховного Суда США, с помощью которых конституционные нормы без формального изменения приобретают реальное звучание, соответствующее меняющимся социальным условиям. Делается вывод, что механизм конституционного правотворчества в США, обусловленный интеграционной природой американской правовой системы в целом, выступает проявлением конвергенции в праве, при которой из трех форм правотворческой техники - договорной, законодательной и прецедентной берутся самые действенные инструменты и достигается наиболее эффективный правовой результат.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>convergence</kwd><kwd>lawmaking</kwd><kwd>the US Constitution</kwd><kwd>the American legal system</kwd><kwd>the U.S. Supreme Court</kwd><kwd>constitutional doctrines</kwd><kwd>case-law</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>конвергенция</kwd><kwd>правотворчество</kwd><kwd>Конституция США</kwd><kwd>правовая система США</kwd><kwd>Верховный суд США</kwd><kwd>конституционные доктрины</kwd><kwd>прецедентное право</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Tret'yakova OD. 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