Legal state and civil society

Civil society is a society of citizens with the high level of economic, social, political, culture and moral properties. Сivil society forms legal relations with the state. Сivil society is society of equal people in their rights and freedoms. The state provides legal possibilities to be an owner for them, to participate in political life.

Attributes of civil society:

- the main social values are persons and their rights;

- priority of society above the state, which is the regulator of public relations and guarantor of realization of rights for personality;

- providing of economic freedom of citizens and their associations;

- presence of pluralism (varieties) in all spheres of material and spiritual life;

- equality of rights and security of all forms of ownership first of all private (individual, group);

- reliable system of social defence of person;

- ideological, political individual freedom, presence of democratic institutes and methods, which provide possibility to influence on realization of state policy for everybody.

In Ukraine civil society is on the stage of forming.

Legal state is the state, in which law dominates, citizens are under reliable legal defense in this state, there is mutual responsibility of person and state. This is the state of real human rights, it is an instrument of providing of such rights.

Attributes of legal state:

- domination of law in public and state life, supremacy of law;

- domination of folk sovereignty. People must be the source of state power. The state forms the bodies of state power through representative or direct democracy;

- fundamental human rights are fixed in constitution and other legal documents. Law spreads not only on citizens but also on the state, all bodies of state power, public organizations and public officers;

- state power is divided into legislative, executive and judicial;

- the state guarantees rights and freedoms of person, provides their guard;

- inviolability of rights, freedoms and interests, honour and dignity of person, legal security of person;

- mutual responsibility of the state and person, equality all before law;

- professionalism of the bodies of state power and public officers, which create legal norms (rules);

- independence of judicial power from other branches of power;

- control and supervision for implementation of laws and mode of legality by all participants of public relations;

- high level of culture in society and legal consciousness of all legal subjects, presence of legal knowledge.

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