From August 28 to October 29, the exhibition "USA: society, state, law", dedicated to the 230th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States of America, is opened in the legal information reading room (room 207b).

The adoption of the US Constitution is the result of the struggle for the independence of the English colonies in North America. The text of the basic law of the state, approved by the Congress of the Confederation, was prepared by September 17, 1787. The Constitution’s purpose was the legalization of a new state – the United States of America.

The US Constitution is a relatively concise document. It contains about 7 thousand words. Structurally, the Constitution today includes a preamble, seven articles and twenty-seven amendments. The document is among the "hard" because it changes in more complicated order than the usual laws: during the period of the regulatory legal act, only 27 amendments were adopted and entered into force.

The first ten of them are informally referred to as the Bill of Rights, which enshrined the most important human rights and freedoms that were virtually absent from the original text of the Constitution. Subsequent amendments dealt with questions of electoral law, racial and national equality of citizens, continuity of power in the event of early termination of the powers of the president, certain issues of justice, etc.

Unlike the constitutional practice of most other countries, the amendments adopted to the US Constitution are not included directly in its text, but are published in addition to it.

The complicated procedure for amending has also led to the absence of many institutions that have become traditional in the world practice of constitutionalism, such as the competence of the Supreme Court in the exercise of constitutional control, the basis of the legal status of political parties, the social rights of citizens, etc. Therefore, constitutional gaps are being filled Acts of Congress and the President, constitutional customs, traditions, judicial precedents.

The US Constitution is an outstanding political and legal act that significantly influenced the constitutions of many countries of the world and laid the foundation for a modern understanding of the constitution, both materially and formally.

The exposition consists of more than 100 documents: books, brochures, periodicals, abstracts of dissertations in Russian and English.

The exhibition will be of interest to students, teachers, graduate students, lawyers of international companies, employees of organizations related to American justice, as well as to all who are interested in American law.

The exhibition includes the following topics: