The article examines individual stages of constitutional development, analyzes and evaluates the texts of the Soviet Constitutions of 1926, 1937 and 1938, as well as the texts of the declaration of state sovereignty, the constitutional law on independence and the Constitution of 1993. The authors raise issues of the correctness of the use of individual words and expressions, the implementation of the basic principles of statehood. The purpose of the study is to conduct a retrospective analysis of constitutional development, identify its main directions and identify emerging problems. The subject of the study is the legal acts of Kazakhstan of the Soviet period and the first half of the 90s of the twentieth century, the legal norms formulated in them and the practice of their implementation, as well as program documents. Systematizing the main stages of constitutional development, the authors of the article formulate that the evolution of constitutionalism in Kazakhstan is closely related to political and legal changes.  The study analyzes the influence of traditional legal institutions and legal provisions of the Kazakh statehood period on the formation of constitutionalism, administrative and legal changes in the Russian Empire, constitutional and legal ideas of representatives of the Alash movement. The article highlights the existence of constitutional continuity of certain provisions. In the period from the establishment of the republic to the adoption of the first Constitution of independent Kazakhstan, important social relations were institutionalized, the people's right to self-determination was realized, and democratic principles were approved.

ISIBAEVA E.I.

Candidate of historical sciences, associate professor of the Department of Jurisprudence, K. Zhubanov Aktobe regional university, Aktobe, Kazakhstan

E-mail: isibaeva.liza@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8356-9910

ADAEV O.SH.

Master of laws, senior lecturer, K. Zhubanov Aktobe regional university, Aktobe, Kazakhstan.

E-mail: adaev.olzhas@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5143-012X

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Constitution of Kazakhstan, republic, constitutional development, constitutionalization, statehood, democracy, provision, right