constitutionalism

The article provides a thorough scientific and theoretical analysis of the impact of European legal principles and standards on ensuring fundamental human rights and freedoms and on the transformation of the model of the rule of law in Ukraine. It is argued that the current processes of Ukrainian statehood formation are taking place in the context of intensive European legal integration, which requires a rethinking of the provisions of the rule of law, constitutionalism, human rights guarantees, and the instruments by which these guarantees are implemented and protected.

The Ukrainian nation has constantly, as evidenced by the chronological framework of the history of Ukraine, fought for freedom and independence, for its own statehood and sovereignty for centuries.

Transformation of the national legal system in the conditions of globalization.

The article examines the role of the Venice Commission in the establishment of modern constitutionalism in Ukraine. The guarantee of the protection of constitutionalism is the vocation of the Venice Commission. The work of the European Commission for Democracy through Law is based on three basic principles of the European constitutional heritage: democracy, human rights and the rule of law, which at the same time form the basis of the Council of Europe's work.

The essence of people’s sovereignty as a legal phenomenon is clarified and its author’s definition for the science of constitutional law is proposed.

The article highlights the issues of complex characteristics of the Constitution of the
Ukrainian People's Republic of 1918 as a normative act and political document, its content and
legal qualities, as well as its place and role in the process of formation and development of
domestic constitutionalism

The main problems of the legal nature of socio-economic rights are examined. Scientific approaches of their realization in comparison with personal and political rights of the “first generation” are studied. The need for the existence of social and economic rights on the level of constitutional regulation is analyzed

There are analyzed the theoretical foundations of the issue of constituent power and the possibility of its practical implementation in terms of constitutional reform in Ukraine, including the possible adoption of a new Constitution of Ukraine. According to the author, adoption of a new Fundamental Law of Ukraine by popular election of the Constitutional Assembly could contribute to the growth in the society the authority of the Constitution, establishment of political stability in the country and restore public confidence in the government.