Based on the comparative historical and comparative legal analysis, the author examines the judicial system of the national state and legal formations of Russia. The features of the judicial system and legal proceedings in one of the national-state autonomous formations of the North Caucasus - North Ossetia are indicated. The social significance of the constitutional (charter) courts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is noted, the need for which is recognized both at the scientific and practical levels, since they solve not only institutional problems, but also those associated with the formation of a federal state. The article criticizes the federal legislative norm on the abolition of these judicial authorities and the possibility of creating instead constitutional (statutory) councils under the legislative bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the goals and objectives of which are not defined, and the status proposed by it violates the well-known legal principle - the prohibition to be a judge in one's own case.