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In the article it is found out that legal values are a determining element of legal influence on the society, which have a significant influence on the mechanism of legal regulation. It is determined that the legal values are, first of all, interrelated with the principles of law, justice, law-making and legal implementation; secondly, they are real socio-legal phenomena, remedies and mechanisms. Legal values have a hierarchical structure and their system is based on a specific set of interests that underpins human needs.

The article is devoted to the problems of the functional purpose of legal ideology. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the main functions of this important social phenomenon. The role of legal ideology in shaping civil society and legal system. It has been found that the functions of legal ideology carry legal effect on social life by legal, moral, and psychological factors. The role of legal ideology in the legislative, economic, social and cultural processes. Revealed its necessity in the process of building an independent, democratic, social state ruled by law.

This article explores the concept of legal values of civil society and its relationship with the legal consciousness of citizens and the democratic transformation. Such basic legal values as freedom, equality, justice, private property, protection of rights and freedoms of man and citizen are characterized. It analyzed the need for a clearly developed and rationalized democratic ideology as the foundation for the further development of legal values of civil society in Ukraine is analyzed.