Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 132–139.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-132-139

Batanov O. V.
The place and role of the Сonstitution in the system of sources of municipal law: domestic and foreign experience

In the process of formation and modernization of local self-government, the study of the role, essence, content, main directions and forms of regulatory influence of the Constitution of Ukraine, laws and other sources of municipal law on social relations in the sphere of organization and functioning of municipal power and protection of municipal human rights is of particular importance. The Сonstitution is the most important among the sources of public law and the legal basis of local selfgovernment in any democratic state. It defines the entire system of the constitutional order, first of all, the state and social order of a country, the status of a person and a citizen, and the system of local self-government, creating the legal basis of direct people’s power, state power, and local self-government as forms of political (public) power. In this regard, naturally, the Constitution itself is the priority legal basis of local self-government, which is characteristic of all democratic states in which the state recognizes (establishes) local self-government. As an act of supreme legal power and a fundamental legal guarantee of local self-government, the Constitution establishes a stabilizing factor in the legal mechanism of state functioning in the field of local self-government. All constitutional norms on local self-government, as the legal basis of state activity in the field of local and regional development, can be divided into norms that: recognize local self-government; the functional purpose of local self-government is determined; the mechanism and organization and activity of local self-government are regulated; the economic basis of local self-government is established; the territorial basis of local self-government is established; the competence of local self-government on some issues is established; state guarantees of local selfgovernment are established; the rights of residents to local self-government are established and restrictions on the rights to local self-government are prohibited. The article analyzes domestic and foreign experience of constitutional regulation of local self-government. It is proved that in the perspective of constitutional modernization of post-war Ukraine, the constitutional experience of many foreign countries deserves attention, in particular, elements of municipal design not only of Poland, France, Denmark or Sweden, but also of South American countries.

Key words: municipal law, sources of municipal law, Constitution, law, municipal power, municipal human rights.

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Oleksandr Vasilyevich Batanov,
leading researcher
of the Department of Constitutional Law and Local Self-Government
of the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Doctor of Law, Professor,
Honored Lawyer of Ukraine
ORCID: 0000-0002-0239-4539