IS THERE A JUDICIAL POWER IN THE SUBJECT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION?
The relevance of this article is based on the need to analyze the changes made to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, affecting the judicial system of the Russian Federation. The aim of this study was to analyze federal legislation, federal legislative process, opinions of scientists and practitioners about the judicial system of the Russian Federation and the existence of judicial power in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation. The subject of the research is the legal relationship that arose in connection with the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. In the study, various methods were used, in particular scientific, analysis, comparison, historical, generalization. As a result of the study, it was concluded: in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, justices of the peace, who are the courts of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, administer justice; these courts are part of the uni ed judicial system of the Russian Federation and do not form an independent judicial authority of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation. In our opinion, the absence of a judicial branch of government in the functioning of state power in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation entails a violation of the principle of separation of state power into legislative, executive and judicial, since justices of the peace do not have the authority to ensure a balance of powers and exclude the concentration of all powers or most of them in the jurisdiction of one public authority