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.
Today’s challenges for the national-legal idea of Ukrainians are, first of all, Russia’s military aggression, when the enemy disregards all international and general civilizational rules of human coexistence and tries to destroy our identity, sovereignty and independence. The challenge is not simply the preservation of Ukrainian identity, but, in fact, democracy in the center of Europe.
It was emphasized that it is important, despite complex social, political, economic and legal realities, to form a holistic understanding and perception of citizens from an early age, themselves and their nation, traditions, customs, culture as the highest value of national self-identity and the basis of selfaffirmation of a person. Today poses new challenges for Ukraine. Challenges, perhaps the most extensive in the history of the modern development of our state, which are connected not only with the threat to our national identity, but also with the physical destruction of Ukrainians.
We are choosing the right to life and our own thousand-year history in the twenty-first century, in the center of Europe. In these challenges of Russia’s war against Ukraine, it is important to preserve our national values, ideals, and ideas, because it is precisely them that the enemy is fiercely destroying, trying to erase our history and the future of Ukrainians.
It is noted that the legal ideology, as a component of the legal idea, personifying the law and its essence, establishes the principles of democracy, equality and justice as the main directions of the development of the state and society. Today, we observe Ukrainians realizing the value of the legal ideology of our state, which is aimed at recognizing, observing and realizing the rights, freedoms and duties of a person and a citizen, at the development of a democratic society and a social and legal state. Citizens realized that these are not empty words and that these factors determine the vector of development of our society.
Attention is focused on the fact that legal ideology, as a component of the legal idea, personifying the law and its essence, consolidates the principles of democracy, equality and justice, together with the national idea, it accumulates national values, progressive initiatives.
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