for the enforcement of constitutional norms for the formation and development of civil
society and the rule of law. For the existence of these opportunities, it is necessary to
implement in practice the constitutional provisions about all activities of the state, each
of its agency, officials must obey the interests of ensuring human rights and freedoms.
A comprehensive system of procedures and mechanisms for the protection of human
and civil rights and freedoms will be required; in addition to the improvement of
traditional judicial and administrative forms of protection, new, non-traditional, with
the best world experience existing in modern society for the present should be
developed. The issue of ensuring the rights and freedoms of refugees and internally
displaced persons is of particular urgency now in Ukraine. This significant group of
people is, unfortunately, outlawed. Moreover, existing regulations that determine the
legal status of these persons are not enforced, the rights of refugees and internally
displaced persons are limited. In general, in modern Ukrainian legislation it is difficult
to understand an experienced lawyer, what if we can talk about ordinary unprepared
people? For an ordinary citizen understanding of the law is virtually unavailable. In
such circumstances it is difficult to speak of a high level of legal awareness of the
population and a developed legal consciousness of society. And this is determined by
the most important condition for the construction of the rule of law and the formation
of civil society.
A general legal reform is needed to break this situation. The basis of this reform
should be a scientifically substantiated concept of rulemaking. This is necessary, first
of all, in order to consolidate the effective system of legal guarantees of the rights and
freedoms of the individual and citizen, which at present in Ukraine has a rather
declarative character. The reform of the judicial system has led to a reduction in the
person's ability to defend his right in court because the judicial system is simply
paralyzed. This in no way contributes to the early formation of civil society. On the
other hand, modern Ukrainian society demands the state to provide direct participation
and control over the actions of the state. That is, there are manifestations of the real
process of forming a civil society.
The basic elements of the concept of rule-making should be: the definition of
social needs in the law, the subject and restrictions of law-making and rule-making
activity; requirements of legal, economic, financial, professional and personnel
justification of bills by subjects of legislative initiative; independent economic, socio-
demographic, international legal expertise; formation of a general information and
legal bank with a system of constant codification and systematization of national
legislation; providing and increasing the role, authority of the law, as the primary
regulator of the most important social relations.
For example, the place of President's decrees in the system of normative acts is
still not clearly defined. According to the Constitution of Ukraine, presidential decrees
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