Lytvynenko I. Local self-government activities related to ensuring constitutional rights and freedoms to a person and a citizen.

Thesis discloses problems of legal regulation of the place, the role, the function and powers of local self-government in the sphere of ensuring rights and freedoms to a person and a citizen. It raises the questions of legal status of a person and a citizen as a member of territorial community; it proves the necessity to apply two-level system of primary subjects of local self-government: territorial community as a social and territorial group and a personality as the subject of individual rights. Major trends of the activities of local authorities related to ensuring civil, social and economic, cultural and political rights to a person and a citizen have been analyzed. Organizational and legal forms and methods of activities of representative and executive local authorities in the process of ensuring rights and freedoms to a person and a citizen have been researched.