Kurchin O. Constitutional and legal support of local self-government bodies of town-planning activity: problems of theory and practice

The urgency of the topic is due to the fact that Ukraine, declaring and gradually implementing the course of interstate European and Euro-Atlantic integration, through the mechanism of modernization and reform attempts bring constitutional and legal institutions to international standards - standards of rights and freedoms, in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights man, paying special attention to the solution of such an element constitutional status of a person as a citizen. The oldest element legal status of a person - citizenship - is traditionally associated with a certain established connection between the person and the territory (state), which is manifested in mutual rights and obligations. For many centuries the institute citizenship has constantly evolved, going from citizenship as domestic category to the universal institute of international rights with certain unifying features, the implementation of which in the constitutional law of nation-states has become mandatory. Simultaneously the content and nature of the modern institution of citizenship, which is influenced international legal standards formed after the Second World War, already in the late XX - early XXI centuries as a result of globalization and interstate integration processes have undergone some updates and changes. After all, the content of the constitutional and legal category of citizenship has acquired features and functional properties that go beyond the traditional perception. First of all, citizenship is no longer perceived as exclusive connection with one state in its mutual rights and responsibilities, and no more identified monopolistically with the category of sovereignty of a state. Given the objective and established trends of formation and development institution of citizenship, there is a need for scientific understanding accumulated theoretical and methodological knowledge about these phenomena, as well as comprehension of the real experience of legislative constitutional law regulation of the organization and activity of state bodies, definition features of the evolutionary development of legal norms, strong and weak parties to regulations governing public relations in in the field of citizenship, borrowing effective normative design technologies, approaches and methods of legislative support, application of comparative approaches to the analysis of legislation in the field of citizenship that will provide opportunity to identify, specify and eliminate gaps in the domestic legislation, outline the practical conceptual directions of it improve.