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
Today, the real requirement of the time is the priority of law over the policy of arbitrariness of power, which determines the structure of any rule of law. The idea of the rule of law is inextricably linked with the idea of the sovereignty of the people, the subordination of the state to society. The implementation of the principles of the rule of law, which in fact limits itself to human rights and freedoms, the rule of law, as a general humanistic value, lead to the expansion of private law regulation, which arise mainly between civil society, providing conditions for its functioning.
The article outlines the role of legal culture and its influence on the formation and development of legal society, as building a civil society, democratic, rule of law is not only a domestic political need, but also an external necessity dictated by Ukraine's development in globalization. In fact, for all its diversity, the world is united in the fact that real progress is made only where the social conditions for the discovery of the main resource of civilization - man.
Building a democratic, rule of law is unthinkable without affirmation of justice, legal andmaterial protection of the individual, mutual responsibility of the individual and the state, improvementof legislation and legal culture as a whole. State-legal and national-cultural revival is possible only oncondition of respect for its own history, its philosophical and philosophical humanistic traditions, whichunderlie our mentality, determine the nature of the nation and the essence of legal culture.