Keyword: «the real constitution»

In this article, the main ideas on the classification of forms of state government are analyzed. From the era of ancient Greece, the legal teachings of Plato and Aristotle are given. The legal thought of the XVI-XIX centuries. On the classification of the form of government is represented by the works of J. Bodin, S.L. Montesquieu and T. Payne. In addition, the most interesting concepts of differentiation of the forms of government of Russian researchers, such as I.A. Ilyin, S.V. Pushkarev, A.I. Cherkasov, D.A. Avdeev. The conclusion of the article concludes that it is necessary to abandon the binary approach in dividing the forms of state government and the need for further study of monocracies and polycratia.