The category "legitimate" in relation to constitutional ideas and doctrines

The article examines the relationship of the category “legitimate” with constitutional ideas, concepts and doctrines. The appeal to the basic concepts that regulate the politics, legal life and culture of the people allows tracing how the foundations that produce law are formed and organized, and how they are formalized into normative rules of behavior. The article substantiates the dependence of the content side of lawfulness on the historical conditions of its interpretation and state interests, which the concept of lawfulness is intended to serve. According to the author, the doctrine of interaction between the state and the person (personality) can be considered as a process and result of the legitimate behavior of the fundamental subjects of constitutional relations. The connection between lawful behavior and constitutional ideas (doctrines) is manifested in the fact that social subjects (individuals and communities) recognize and defend their own, different from others, a system of values, and the rules and patterns of behavior by which they are guided reflect the desired and the model of the structure of power relations recognized for them.