people’s power

The role of legal awareness in the process of popular sovereignty realization

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 tradition of power’s electivity in ukraine: categorial-conceptual apparatus of the research

In the article the problem of formation and the current state of the tradition of power’s
electivity in Ukraine was considered. The basic concepts, terms and categories by which the
tradition of electivity in Ukraine was described, were analyzed. Their understanding is
necessary for the generalizing historical and legal analysis of the formation of power’s
electivity tradition in Ukraine, the leading method of which is historical-conceptual method