KRUSS Vladimir Ivanovich, doctrine. Jur. Sciences, Professor, head of chair of theory of law, Tver state University. E-mail: t-prava@yandex.ru

The article raises the problem of the General undervaluation of Russian legal science of the RF Constitution as the national Constitution of the modern type, the text of which is conceptually divided (synchronized) with international law the rights and freedoms of man and citizen. According to the author, this circumstance leads to a pronounced inattention of legal scholars to the urgent task of constitutionalization (constitutional modernization) of systems of Russian law and legislation, establishment of the destructive sectoral fragmentation of scientific research. In this regard, analyzes three modes of correlation and the possible effect of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the legal science. In the first aspect (epistemology) the text of the national Constitution provides specific legitimacy of legal knowledge. In the second (ontological) - objective homogeneity of results of studies related to common goals and the prospect of constitutionalization of the legal system. The third aspect (propaedeutics) characterizes the value of the Constitution of the Russian Federation for the technologies of the modern legal education and encourages critically evaluate the nature and results of ongoing in this area of reform.

the Russian Constitution, constitutionalism, the constitutional text, the constitutional legal thinking, the constitutional modernization of legal systems, constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, legal science as a participant of the process of constitutionalization, legal education.