Abstract. It was found that the natural and legal laws of the development of society are an integral component of the formation of a civilized legal system within the legal space. A person cannot influence the norms of natural law, but only use them as much as possible, get to know them and embody them in the positive legal field of the state for the formation of a legal and democratic society.
It was found that the Ukrainian national-legal idea is the driving force for the preservation and
development of Ukrainian identity and statehood based on social and legal ideals, which are formed through the
value beliefs, attitudes and orientations of conscious, socially active citizens.
Todays challenges for the national-legal idea of Ukrainians are, first of all, Russias military aggression,
when the enemy disregards all international and general civilizational rules of human coexistence and tries to