Abstract:
На основі аналізу доктринальних джерел законодавчий конституційний процес розглянуто
як елемент предмета пізнання теорії конституціоналізму. На прикладі внесення змін до
Конституції України виокремлено стадії законодавчого конституційного процесу, акцентовано на
двох його видах: поточному та перспективному.
Констатовано, що в нашій державі такий процес зводиться виключно до внесення змін та
доповнень до Конституції України. Зазначено, що законодавчий конституційний процес повинен
охоплювати собою не лише внесення змін до Основного закону, але й ухвалення його нової
редакції чи загалом нової Конституції.
Description:
Based on the
analysis of doctrinal sources, the legislative constitutional process has been considered as an element of
the subject of knowledge of the theory of constitutionalism. Two groups of studies of this phenomenon
have been distinguished.
Using the example of amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine, the stages of the legislative
constitutional process have been highlighted, focusing on its two types: current and prospective. The
essential features of the constitutional regulation of the procedure for introducing amendments to the
Basic Law of the Ukrainian State have been clarified and, on this basis, suggestions have been made
regarding the improvement of the legislative constitutional process as an important component of the
subject of knowledge of the theory of constitutionalism.
The authors have found that in our country such a process is reduced exclusively to the
introduction of amendments and additions to the Constitution of Ukraine. It is noted that the legislative
constitutional process should include not only the introduction of amendments to the Basic Law, but also
the adoption of its new version or a new Constitution in general. The emphasis has been placed on the
initiators of making such changes, the forms of citizen participation in the process of making changes to
the Constitution of Ukraine, and the entities that have the right to make decisions on making changes to
the Basic Law, which are the people and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. It is noted that the
constitutionality of such changes is monitored by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
The attention has been paid to the provisions of Art. 157 of the Constitution, which makes it
impossible to make changes to the Basic Law in conditions of martial law or a state of emergency, as well
as constitutional and legal prescriptions that prohibit its introduction, if such changes provide for the
cancellation/restriction of the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen or the elimination of
independence/violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The authors have summarized that in view
of the constitutionally established parliamentary-presidential form of government, the center of initiatives
to amend the Basic Law should be shifted from the President of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada of
Ukraine; it is necessary to involve subjects of civil society in constitutional modernization; to develop the
concept of constitutional reform in Ukraine.
