The significance of legal awareness in the process of popular sovereignty realization is considered in the article. The notion of national legal awareness as the peculiar form of public conscience is analyzed. It is proved that legal awareness forms the basis of both direct and representative democracy. The influence of legal awareness over the practical usage of direct democracy institutions is determined. The research is done into the impact of legal awareness on such forms of direct democracy as elections, referendum, popular control, people’s initiative and popular resistance. It is discovered that the effectiveness of these democracy institutions depends directly on the level of national legal awareness.
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