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iiclr-17809	Waggoner, Jeffrey	Discretion and Valor at the Russian Constitutional Court: Adjudicating the Russian Constitutions in the Civil-Law Tradition	1997	42	.pdf	application/pdf	21573	1166	56	Although this study must of course refer to the substance of Russian constitutional law, the substantive law of the analyzed disputes is important only to distinguish one case from another. The RSFSR Constitutional Court, when trying the constitutionality of [a] normative act, shall have in view both its literal meaning and the construction put on it by official and [Vol. 8:1 DISCRETION AND VALOR strictures imposed by Article 74, however, the Court is almost completely free to adjudicate the Russian Constitution as it sees fit; the Russian Constitutional Court occupies the same position in Russian constitutional law that the Jay and Marshall Courts occupy in American constitutional law.	cache/iiclr-17809.pdf	txt/iiclr-17809.txt