are obligatory for execution throughout the territory of the state, they must not
contradict the laws, but they are not strictly subordinate acts. The Constitution does not
require the President to issue decrees "on the basis of and in compliance with the laws".
In essence, the President is given the right to fill in the gaps in lawmaking with his
decrees. It is necessary to strengthen control over the compliance of other laws and by-
laws with the Constitution of Ukraine. Moreover, the internal content of the
Constitution needs to be reconciled and brought to the legal-logistic system. Although,
in the field of constitutional law analysis, now lawyers have the idea of adopting a new
constitution under a rigid procedure to make it impossible for each new president to
change the Constitution in line with their political interests.
A special place in ensuring the rights and freedoms of the person, strengthening
and protecting the constitutional system belong to the judicial and law enforcement
agencies. The current judicial reform that is being conducted in Ukraine has only
worsened the effectiveness of judicial institutions and positions. On July 2nd 2016
Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the Constitution: they were supported by 335
deputies with the required minimum of 300 votes. Also, on this day the Law "On the
Judiciary and Status of Judges" was adopted. Among other laws adopted in the
framework of judicial reform are the Law "On Amendments to the Economic
Procedural Code of Ukraine, the Civil Procedural Code of Ukraine, the Code of
Administrative Legal Proceedings of Ukraine and other legislative acts", the Law "On
ensuring the right to a fair trial", the Law "On Higher council of justice "and a number
of others. But as a result of legislative changes to improve the judicial system to date,
there is a lack of staffing of the judiciary, poor technical equipment, low qualifications
of courts contributes to delaying the consideration of cases, and sometimes makes them
inappropriate at all. Naturally, it promotes the formation of a society of distrust of
justice, and also forms a negative attitude to the existing law. In this situation, the
deformation of professional legal consciousness in the system of state institutions,
which gives rise to its degeneration into the criminal form of consciousness, also takes
place. In conditions where the criminal world of the country becomes a sufficiently
powerful force structure, lawyers-professionals, civil servants appear in their ranks
besides "thieves in the law", "authorities", and militants. There is a merger of state and
mafia structures, which leads to catastrophic growth of crime in the country. The crime
situation in the country is estimated today in the form of such characteristics as
rampant, collapse, lawlessness. The crime in recent years has increased by 6 times and
acquired mafia-organizational character with the prevalence of violent, violent forms
[2]. There was a merger with the corrupt part of the state apparatus. The "criminal
justice" appeared. The laws are blamed openly, cynically and almost with impunity.
The criminal world dictates its conditions, attacks on the state itself, claims to power.
He monitors and controls the actions of law enforcement agencies, uses in relation to
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