Abstract:
Предметом наукового аналізу стали відображені в сучасній правничій науці судження вчених про такі складові конституційно-правового статусу людини і громадянина, як гарантії прав і свобод людини, юридичні гарантії прав людини, гарантії всеукраїнського референдуму, гарантії референтного процесу та механізм здійснення народовладдя. На основі цього обґрунтовано та сформульовано авторські дефініції понять «юридичні гарантії виборчих прав громадян України» та «юридичні гарантії права громадян України на участь у всеукраїнському та місцевому референдумі».
Description:
In preparing the article, the author aimed to substantiate the author's concepts "legal guarantees of voting rights of citizens of Ukraine" and "legal guarantees of the right of citizens of Ukraine to participate in allUkrainian and local referendums." The modern doctrine of constitutional law reflects the judgments of legal scholars on such components of the constitutional and legal status of the man and the citizen as guarantees of human rights and freedoms, legal guarantees of human rights, guarantees of the all-Ukrainian referendum, guarantees of the reference process and the mechanism of democracy. Based on this, the following author's definitions of the studied concepts have been substantiated and formulated: 1) legal guarantees of citizens’ voting rights is a system of legal remedies defined in national legislation, which are used (or applied) by the actors of the election process, public authorities and their officials in connection with the exercise of their powers, as well as measures, which are used
by them for the practical implementation by the citizens of Ukraine of their opportunities related
to the formation of elected representative bodies of public authority, the granting or receipt of
representative mandates;
2) legal guarantees of the right of citizens of Ukraine to participate in the all-Ukrainian and
local referendum is a system of legal remedies defined in the national legislation, which are used (or
applied) by the actors of the referendum process, public authorities and their officials in connection
with their competencies, as well as the measures they take for the practical implementation by
citizens of Ukraine of their opportunities related to initiating the matter of holding an all-Ukrainian
or local referendum, formulating the content of a decision of national or local significance, and its
approval as a result of national expression of will or expression of will of citizens of Ukraine living
within the relevant administrative-territorial unit.