The article analyzes the development of Ukrainian civil society in accordance with the requirements of European institutional progress. It is found out that under the rule of law state power becomes the most important tool by which civil society provides optimal conditions for self-development. It is in this context that the state acts as a public-power institution that manages civil society as a whole and is called upon to act in the general interest. Contemporary constitutionalism in Ukraine objectively requires the active promotion of the state in the reform of society, and not the perception of the state as a hostile society of power.
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