THE DIRECTIONS OF IMPROVEMENT OF NATIONAL LEGISLATION: FROM THE COMMAND-CONTROLLED SYSTEM TO THE MODERN DEMOCRATIC SOCIAL LAW-GOVERNED STATE

Abstract

INTRODUCTION After proclaiming independence in Ukraine 1 the period of large-scale reforms began, which was supposed to be completed by the transformation of the Soviet-pattern Ukraine into the European state. Having adopted the Constitution of Ukraine in 1996, the reformative efforts to introduce human centered ideology gained an additional impulse. Article 5 of the Constitution of Ukraine stipulates that “the bearer of sovereignty and the only source of power in Ukraine is the people. People exercise power directly and through the bodies of state power and local self-government”, and Article 6 of the Constitution of Ukraine stipulates that “state power in Ukraine is exercised on the basis of its division into legislative, executive and judicial” 2 . Just in order to bring the state power in Ukraine in the compliance of its actual state (with the remained elements of the Soviet system) with the legal state (enshrined in the Constitution of an independent Ukraine), the administrative reform was initiated in 1998. In fact, it should have become the basis for reforming not only administrative legislation, but also the entire public law in Ukraine. The Constitution of Ukraine laid the basis for the development of Ukraine as a highly developed, legal, civilized European state with a high standard of living, culture and democracy, in which the principle of the supremacy of law acts and all public relations are based on legal orders. Article 3 of the Constitution of Ukraine stipulates that “human rights and freedoms and their guarantees determine the content and orientation of the state. The state is responsible to a person for its activity. The assertion and