LEVEL OF LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PERSONALITY AS A GUARANTEE OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION

INTRODUCTION The development of democratic relations, the formation of public society, law-governed state in Ukraine require the formation of socioactive personality with a high level of legal consciousness and legal culture as well as recognition the law as the main regulator of public relations. Law as a means of both social regulation of public relations and a component of the subject of the state and law theory has been the object of research of national and foreign law theorists not only once. Law is a meaningful value for a modern society as well as every person: its influence on the life of the state, society as a whole, every citizen is rather deep and complex; that is why it can not be explained in a simple and one-sided way. Most of the authors support the normative school of legal thinking, according to which law is considered as a normative and voluntary regulator of public relations, as an internal mutually agreed system of formally defined norms established or authorized by the state, provided by coercive force of the state 1 . Law in society is not merely a “phenomenon in itself”, but as an external phenomenon, a powerful regulatory means that requires a person to act in accordance with the requirements of law 2 . In this meaning, law is a social regulator, a certain degree of freedom, based on the achievements of human civilization and culture, serves as a criterion of public