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The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan enshrines the ideas of national sovereignty, civil peace and social harmony, commitment to the ideals of freedom, equality and harmony, as well as the desire to build a democratic, secular, legal and social state.
The purpose of this work is to study the role of the Preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the practice of the first Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1992-1995), the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995-2022) and the current Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as to conduct a comparative legal analysis with the practice of the Constitutional Council of the French Republic and the approaches of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.
The conducted research allows us to state that the importance of the Preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the activities of constitutional control bodies is consistently increasing and acquiring more and more pronounced doctrinal and practical content.
Thus, the Preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan performs an important function of ensuring the value, ideological and semantic unity of the entire constitutional system. It serves as a guideline for the interpretation of constitutional norms, helps to strengthen the constitutional identity of the state and influences the development of modern legal doctrine.
In the future, we can expect a further expansion of the role of the Preamble in the practice of constitutional justice, especially in connection with the strengthening of the value approach in the new Constitution of Kazakhstan in 2026, and consequently, the strengthening of the human rights focus of constitutional control and the development of a value-based approach to the interpretation of the Constitution (Constitution, 2026).