The continuity of statehood: the essence of the phenomenon in the historical and legal perspective

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the essence and causality of the continuity of the phenomenon of statehood using the example of the historical development of socio-legal systems in one of the Russian regions – Dagestan. Based on the understanding of the theoretical and methodological complex and the accumulated knowledge of socio-political development, which generates the possibility of societies preserving their immanent originality in evolutionary progress and transformation, the work assesses continuity as the first and main pattern of statehood development. As a result of the study, it was established that continuity, being an organic principle of development, acts as a factor in determining the evolutionary essence of statehood and includes the choice of political, legal, religious and other generally significant values of a particular period of progress of a given system.