Alyona Sankova

The state, its head, the state power itself always need the trust and support of its own population. State power in the United States in the scientific literature has traditionally been regarded as truly democratic and legitimate. Until 2016, the US establishment has never raised the question of presidential power legitimacy, with the exception of the civil war period. However, even now it continues to split American society, not allowing D. Trump to pursue his own policy.

The presidential republic is historically the first form of the republic in which the president is the head of state. It still dominates the republican form of government. The homeland of the presidential republic was the United States of America, which in 1787 consolidated this form of government in its Constitution. Many nations followed their path, but in fact, no other country in the world succeeded in the presidential republic transplantation. Attempts to establish it everywhere ended in the establishment of some form of dictatorship and hypertrophied authorities of the state head.

The recent tragic events related to the destruction of statehood and coups d'etat in a number of countries in Asia, America, Africa and Europe have been accompanied by massive violations of human rights. However, due to the application of double standards in the field of human rights, many existing domestic and international forms and means of their protection have been paralyzed.