The dissertation is devoted to a comprehensive study of constitutional values in the conditions of the formation of Ukraine as a legal state. The work analyzes values from a philosophical and constitutional-legal aspect. These were the needs that served as a kind of tool and means of human survival in the natural environment.
A substantive analysis of doctrinal approaches to the definition of the category of "value" as a philosophical and constitutional-legal category was conducted, during which the scientific works of philosophers of antiquity (Aristotle, Plato), philosophers of other periods, as well as modern Ukrainian scientists, including constitutionalists, were examined and elaborated.
The research reveals the content and significance of constitutional values in society. During the research, the author provided a detailed description of the fundamental human values enshrined in Article 3 of the Constitution of Ukraine. It was found that the constitutional values, which are enshrined in the Basic Law, are the fundamental basis of vital human benefits that are under the special protection of the state.
Within the scope of the dissertation research, Ukraine as a legal state was analyzed from an axiological point of view and a meaningful characterization was provided by key constitutional principles. In particular, the work pays due attention to the principle of the rule of law, which occupies a central place in the legal system and in the mechanism of building a coherent system of legislation, and identifies the problems of its implementation at the current stage, including in the context of the introduction and implementation of legal values.
The work analyzes the transformation of the main types of constitutional values in the conditions of the formation of the Ukrainian legal state, which was implemented against the background of various social and technological factors that significantly influenced the further development of human and citizen rights and freedoms, the development of statehood, and the transformation of the public administration system.
Within the framework of the dissertation research, the procedural mechanisms, means of implementation of constitutional values, which are the most important forms of manifestation and protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of a person and a citizen, were highlighted. The axiological aspects of the constitutionalization of issues related to the judicial system of Ukraine and their implementation in practice were analyzed.
On the basis of an axiological analysis, the key provisions of the modernization of constitutional values in the sphere of the organization of public power were revealed, during which the main aspects of the reform aimed at the decentralization of state power, its impact on the further development of legal statehood, were determined, problematic issues of the internal organizational nature of local government bodies that arise in the process of exercising authority were identified. In this context, an approach was formulated, according to which the specified reform is a certain attempt of the political elite, which is designed to reveal the essence of the development of legal statehood and the possibility of realizing the constitutional values guaranteed by the state, primarily in the sphere of state affairs management.
The dissertation research provides a meaningful description of socially determined transformational processes in the sphere of realization of constitutional values of civil society. In the process of research, the most important key aspects of the leading institutions of civil society were highlighted, their role in the process of legal state formation was determined, meaningful directions of interaction with the state in the aspect of guaranteeing constitutional values were characterized, the innovations of Ukrainian legislation were analyzed and their practical implementation shortcomings were identified.
The importance of constitutional values in the field of national security and defense of Ukraine as a legal state is emphasized. In the course of the study, the key provisions of information security were analyzed, the main aspects of the manifestation of corruption in the authorities, which are a direct threat to the interests of national security, were highlighted, the implementation of basic constitutional and legal values in the conditions of the legal regime of martial law was analyzed, scientific provisions and proposals have been developed regarding the guarantee of the implementation of constitutional values within the framework of the implementation of state policy in the field of national security and defense to ensure the existence of Ukraine not only as a sovereign and independent, but also as a legal state, as well as the transformation of the existing legal order.
