Keyword: «head of state»

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 article examines the key aspects of the constitutional legal status of the President of the Russian Federation, his powers, functions and place in the system of state power. The article analyzes the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which consolidate the totality of the rights, duties and powers of the President of the Russian Federation.