The problems of studying the normative basis of modern Ukrainian constitutionalism are determined by two main factors: the role and significance of constitutionalism as the goal of modern political and legal transformations taking place in Ukraine; the practical need for constitutional and legal support of reform processes withinthese transformations through the modernization of the Constitution of Ukraine and the improvement of current legislation, which form the normative basis of constitutionalism.

The purpose of the article is to reveal the constitutional and legal doctrine and determine the peculiarities of the practice of creation of a normative basis for modern Ukrainian constitutionalism, the system of which is aimed at limiting (self-limiting) public power in favor of civil society, human and civil rights, and interests in order to achieve (recognize, ensure, protect) constitutional and legal freedom of a person.

The Constitution as the core of Ukrainian constitutionalism in its essence and content should correspond to universal values, advanced political and legal ideas and principles of European constitutionalism and, at the same time, change (improve) in accordance with the trends in the development of an organized society. Modern Ukrainian constitutionalism should be based on a consistent, structured system of constitutional legislation, which is characterized by an optimal combination of stability and flexibility, which is possible only with a clear definition of the subject of regulation by the most crucial normative act in this system after the Constitution – the constitutional law and the introduction of the separation of organic and ordinary laws. This implies the need to separate from the entire array of Public Relations an exhaustive, closed list of issues (relations) that are subject to regulation exclusively by constitutional and organic laws. By constitutional laws included in the system of constitutional legislation, it is expedient to understand laws that amend the Constitution of Ukraine (constitutional laws on amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine), as well as laws regulating the most important public relations that are formed in the process of exercising state and public self-government power and its relations with the people, population, civil society and man (constitutional laws on ensuring the constitutional order of Ukraine). Organic laws should be adopted on all other issues related to the constitutional structure of the state and society, with a direct reference in the text of the Constitution of Ukraine according to the existing legislative procedure, while simplifying the procedure for adopting ordinary laws on current issues.

Thus, taking into account the domestic constitutional and legal realities, the existing practice of lawmaking, it is scientifically based and practically appropriate to create an effective normative basis for modern Ukrainian constitutionalism, to amend the Constitution of Ukraine in accordance with the trends of the constitutional development of the Ukrainian state and society; as well as to improve the system of constitutional legislation, in particular, through the introduction of the classification of laws into constitutional, organic and ordinary laws in the legislative practice of Ukraine.

Bibliography

Authored books

1. Boryslavska O, Yevropeiska model konstytutsionalizmu: systemno-aksiolohichnyi analiz (Pravo 2018) (in Ukrainian).

2. Shapoval V, Sravnytelnoe konstytutsyonnoe pravo (Kniahynia Olha 2007) (in Russian).

Edited and translated books

3. Diuhy Leon, Konstytutsyonnoe pravo. Obshchaia teoryia hosudarstva (Iuryd l-ra 2005) (in Ukrainian).

4. Koziubra M (red), Konstytutsiine pravo (VAITE 2021) (in Ukrainian).

5. Riiaka V, Zakomorna K (uporiad), Konstytutsiine zakonodavstvo zarubizhnykh krain: khrestomatiia (Iurinkom Inter 2007) (in Ukrainian).

Journal articles

6. Dutka H, ‘Klasyfikatsiia zakoniv: realnist i perspektyvy’ (2012) 2 Prykarpatskyi yurydychnyi visnyk 27 (in Ukrainian).

7. Dutka H, ‘Orhanichni zakony v systemi zakonodavstva Ukrainy’ [2013] 1 (3) Prykarpatskyi yurydychnyi visnyk 87 (in Ukrainian).

8. Popovych N, ‘Konstytutsiini zakony: porivnialno-pravovyi analiz’ (2018) 20 Natsyonalnyi yurydycheskyi zhurnal (in Ukrainian).

Theses

9. Dutka H, ‘Zakon u systemi normatyvno-pravovykh aktiv Ukrainy’ (avtref dys kand yuryd nauk, Kyiv nats un-t im T Shevchenka 2003) (in Ukrainian).

Websites

10. Delpere F, Vyznachennia ta znachennia zakoniv. Rada za Yevropu: Zmitsnennia spromozhnosti ta potentsialu Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy (Proekt YeS-PROON) <https:// www.undp.org/content/dam/ukraine/docs/DG/Rada%20for%20Europe/paper%20 meaning%20of%20law%20UA.pdf> (accessed: 15.12.2021) (in Ukrainian).

11. Dopovid ta Dorozhnia Karta shchodo vnutrishnoi reformy ta pidvyshchennia instytutsiinoi spromozhnosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy: pidhotovleno Misiieiu Yevropeiskoho parlamentu z otsinky potreb pid holovuvanniam Peta Koksa, Prezydenta Yevropeiskoho parlamentu 2002–2004 (2015–2016) <https://www.europarl.europa.eu/resources/library/media/20 160301RES16508/20160301RES16508.pdf> (accessed: 15.12.2021) (in Ukrainian).

12. Zmini do Konstituciyi Ukrayiny v chastini decentralizaciyi vlady. Finalnij zvit za rezultatami inklyuzivnih pozaparlamentskih publichnih konsultacij “Zmini do Konstituciyi Ukrayiny u chastini decentralizaciyi cherez consensus”. Proekt tekstu zmin do Konstituciyi Ukrayiny v chastini decentralizaciyi vlady (2021) <http://komsamovr.rada.gov.ua/ uploads/documents/42960.pdf> (accessed: 15.12.2021) (in Ukrainian).

13. ‘Perspektyvy zminy protsedury pryiniattia zakoniv u Verkhovnii Radi Ukrainy. Analitychna zapyska’ (Natsionalnyi instytut stratehichnykh doslidzhen, 2013) <https:// niss.gov.ua/doslidzhennya/politika/perspektivi-zmini-proceduri-priynyattya-zakonivuverkhovniy-radi-ukraini> (accessed: 15.12.2021) (in Ukrainian).