honor

The article indicates that the honor and dignity of a person is an important factor and an integral component of his constitutional rights and freedoms. Starting from antiquity, in many normative legal acts such as Roman law, Digests of Justinian, the legislation of Kievan Rus, and other European states, the desire to protect the rights, honor and dignity of privileged social classes, and later also of free people, through the legislative policy of the state, can be traced.

The article is devoted to the fight of the great Ukrainian poet, artist and public figure, patriot, defender of rights, freedoms, esteem and dignity. Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko entered the history as prominent and fearless fighter against antinational, antilegal, inhumane political and legal system of Russian Tsarizm. Taras Shevchenko is Ukrainian Prometheus 114 who brought the truth to people by prominent words, forming a national consciousness and willingness of Ukrainians to fight for social and national liberation.