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The relevance of the problem is determined by the need to comprehend both the historical experience of Ukrainian statehood and the contemporary challenges facing the Ukrainian state in the fields of international and constitutional law. The armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the resulting temporary occupation of Ukrainian territories have brought to the fore, in particular, the issues of the right of nations to self-determination, the legitimacy of statehood, and the moral and legal limits of national struggle.

The issues of establishing Ukrainian state traditions as one of the forms of self-identification of the people in the context of periodization of the history of the state and law and the formation of the Ukrainian ethnos (nation) are covered. The consequences of the establishment of Ukrainian state traditions from the Middle Ages to modern times are traced.

Fight of Taras Shevchenko against royal autocracy, the whole political, legal and administrative system is considering in article. In witty satirical form poet is opening in humane, unlegal degree of feudal and autocracy system, despotism of power.

The article examines the place and role of the national state and the substance of the creative process. Particular attention is paid to the national spirit, national mentality and national consciousness of the individual in public-power mechanisms. Attempting to determine the national substance in transformational paradigm of modern society.