Values of Law and Legal Order in the Context of the Public Life Democratisation

Introduction. The  formation, functioning and  development of  a  civilized  civil  society  with  the  well-established institutions of democracy is impossible without compliance with the acting values of law, reliance on the law legitimacy regime and legal order consistency. It is worth to emphasise that the interaction between the civil society and the law-governed state, launching the integration of the legal values into the fundamental social relations and the legal order potential, can be carried out only based on the mature democracy. This determines a favourable legal environment enabling a person and a citizen to gain rights and freedoms of his priority. The involvement of the legal instruments is vitally important in such spheres of political and social reality where the rights, freedoms and legal obligations of the society members are fulfilled. The aim of the study is to identify the influence of the legal values on the legal order in the context of the democratic regime and civil society development.

Materials and Methods. The article analyses the values of law in the context of the public life democratisation. In the research the general scientific as well as specific scientific methods were used, such as: dialectical, system analysis, axiological, legalistic, comparative law and others.

Results. The role of the democratic Constitution of the country as a major component of the legal value system is substantiated. The features of the legal value system and the legal order potential, intermediating the state of equality, freedom, legal activity in the leading spheres of political, social, and legal reality, were analysed. It is concluded that the full-fledged functioning of the civil society and the decent living of its members are mainly determined by the legal value system and consistent legal order. The legal values efficiency is distinctly manifested only through the successful functioning of the civil society institutions and authorities, through fulfilment of the human rights and freedoms.

Discussion and Conclusion. Many vital problems of the civil society cannot be solved separately from the law. The problems of the legal regulation and attempts of the state to take control over the purely public spheres of the society members’ lives are revealed. It is proposed to focus on the need to clearly define the boundaries of the social and legal order, to use rationally the regulatory potential of both the norms of law and the social conduct norms.

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