Abstract
The authors argue that the Constitutions of modern secular states have the same value and significance for organizing the life of individuals, ethnic groups and peoples as the Holy Scriptures of monotheism had in the religious epochs. The article contains a comparative analysis of the functions of Constitutions and the Holy Scriptures in secular and religious states. In the history of mankind three main stages of its mental development can be identified: paganism, monotheism and scientific perception of the world. Each of them has its own perception of the world, its values and norms and rules of behavior. The first two stages are religious and the last one is post-religious. All these stages of civilizational development are clearly set forth in the Holy Scriptures such as the Torah, the New Testament and the Koran. The attitude to the Constitution as the founding document governing the organization of the life of all the citizens irrespective of their ethnic background and distinctness, spiritual preferences and religious views not only in polyethnic and multi-confessional but also in 2 monoethnic countries should be no less respectful than the attitude toward the Holy Scriptures in the canon law states.
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