Law of Russia ||This article needs additional citations for
verification. (October 2009)| |This article is part of the
series: Politics and government of Domestic sources  Since its
adoption in a 1993 referendum the Russian Constitution is
considered to be the supreme law of the land. Article 15 of the
Constitution reads that it “shall have supreme legal force and
have direct effect, and shall be applicable throughout the
entire territory of the Russian Federation.” Courts are guided
by the Constitution and it trumps federal and local laws.
Constitutional laws  Constitutional laws cannot become part of
the constitution or amend parts of it absent a special legal act
on constitutional amendment. They are typically enacted in
important areas of constitutional law, such as Article 56 which
allows for the passage of constitutional laws necessitated by a
state of emergency. However the Constitutional Court was able to
foreclose the possibility that constitutional laws could be used
to circumvent the legislative pr