Сonstitutional and juridical aspects of the institutionalization of constitutional referendum

Purpose: The goal is to disclose the сonstitutional and juridical features of decisions made in a constitutional referendum and their impact on. Methodology: Historical legal and formal legal methods. Results: In this article theoretical problems of development of such form of constitutional lawmaking as a referendum are considered; A distinction was drawn between ordinary and constitutional types of referendums; The tendency of replacement by referendum of decisions of representative institutions in the process of сonstitutional and juridical reform of the state structure is shown; The evaluation of the role of direct democracy in the dynamics of the system of state institutions of the developed countries of Western Europe is given. Novelty/originality/value: The novelty of the research consists in raising the question of the scope of the competence of direct democracy in the sphere of сonstitutional and juridical reform of modern democratic systems; Originality consists in a differentiated approach to assessing the сonstitutional and juridical significance of different types of referendums.