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The article considers the issues with regard to the direct effect of the Constitution. The topic is presented by analyzing the techniques for proper implementation of the Constitution and ensuring the constitutionality of the law enforcement/judicial practice. Author differentiates the content of the concepts „direct effect” and “direct implementation” of the Constitution, presenting the essence of each of the notions. Techniques for proper implementation of constitutional norms are suggested by the author, analyzing also the implementation priority rules. According to the author implementing legislative provisions in conformity with their constitutionallegal content is another precondition for ensuring the proper application of the Constitution. The law enforcement/judicial practice can become a subject of consideration by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia if itis not an issue of legitimacy of the mentioned practice, but an issue of constitutionality of the latter, an issue of evaluation of the circumstance whether the legal acts are implemented in conformity with their constitutional-legal content in the frames of the mentioned practice is raised.

The article considers the issues of axiological characteristics of constitutional preambles and possibilities of their amendment. The author concludes that the constitutional preamble, besides the declaratory significance, has a constitutional value, practical importance. The unchangeability of the constitutional preamble, its citation among the unchangeable constitutional articles and other circumstances with regard to this are conditioned by the contentual peculiarities of the preamble and are subject to assessment in each concrete situation. The Armenian constitutional preamble should be unchangeable from the textual viewpoint. At the same time, it can be developed via other alternative ways, having as a key point the circumstance that the above-mentioned regulations are subject to dynamic interpretation, within the frames of which changes of perception of their separate elements are possible, simultaneously, the elements, constituting the „core”, „kernel” of these principles, should be unchangeable.

Author analyzes the role of politics and the time factor for estimating constitutional stability. She draws a conclusion that the Constitution should be not a tool for politics, but a bound, framework for it. Moreover, the constitutional developments should express not the current political preferences and interests, but be superior to them and define fundamental legal framework for political actors and events. Moreover, taking into consideration the Author’s viewpoint concerning the interrelations between the stability of the Constitution and time, she considers that it isn’t expedient to mention a concrete period of time, in conditions of which the Constitution should stay in force to be considered stable.