25 YEARS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE: RESULTS AND FURTHER PROSPECTS

The purpose of the article is to analyse role Constitution Ukraine in state-building and law-making processes study problem necessity directions its improvement. methodological basis work a set general special scientific methods. It based on philosophical method dialectics. Methods recognition such as logic-semantic, system-structural, formal-legal, comparative-legal other methods phenomena are used for work. emphasizes that adoption 1996 marked an important stage national state building, which legally defined transformational transition from totalitarianism democracy. noted Ukraine, legal act supreme force, has been formation democratic, social become political document programme character, directed Ukrainian society public authorities appropriate democratic reforms field processes. number political, social, economic factors put agenda issue constitutional reform our country, should aim at achieving European level socio-economic development, modernization existing governance system, improvement authority status citizens.