The Meaning and Place of Legality in the Concept of Formal and Substantive Grounds for Law and Order

Aim. To identify the place and significance of legality in the proposed concept of formal and meaningful grounds for law and order.

Methodology. The work uses various both general and private scientific methods: formal-logical, dialectical, analysis, historical-legal, formal-legal. An original combination of sociological and axiological methodologies is also used.

Results. Having tried to comprehend the category «legality» from various positions, the author comes to the conclusion that the phenomenon in question is an expression of the formal foundations of law and order; it is incorrect to combine legality with various substantive characteristics (socialist or bourgeois legality, etc.); the state’s activities to strengthen legality can be of both functional and dysfunctional

Research implications. The results of the study make a certain contribution to the development of one of the fundamental branches of science of the theory of state and law - the problem of law and order, as well as their relationship.

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