SOCIOLOGICAL AND LEGAL PROBLEMS OF FORMATION OF ECOLOGICAL STATE

INTRODUCTION The modern American and European state, which in Ukraine was fairly called “civilized”, is essentially a liberal state, including Ukraine, which was incorporated into the essence of the state and the model of government by the parents of the Constitution of Ukraine in 1996, including the author of this article 1 . So far as, the content of the liberal model of the state, which is put into the Constitution of Ukraine as well, involves a number of important factors, in particular, the rule of law, the primacy of human rights and freedoms, proclaimed the highest social value. Here we also have the restriction of the state by law: the content and direction of the state’s activity determine the human rights and freedoms (Article 3 of the Constitution of Ukraine), bodies of state power and bodies of local self-government, their officials are obliged to act only on the basis, within the limits of authority and in a way, stipulated by the Constitution and laws (Article 19 of the Constitution of Ukraine). As a theoretical and methodological substantiation of what model of the state to replace the post-industrial state in the new world order, the advisability of combining the strengthening of state functions and the need to preserve liberal human rights and freedoms against the background of global environmental challenges, creation of an ecological state.