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Almanac of law. Issue 16 (2025), pages 168–174.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2025-16-168-174

Batanova N. M.
Constitutional and legal responsibility in the context of municipalism formation: topical issues of doctrine

The article examines the phenomenon of constitutional and legal responsibility in the field of local selfgovernment in the aspect of theoretical and methodological understanding of the doctrines of constitutionalism and municipalism.

It is noted that the constitutional and legal responsibility of local self-government entities is not only an important means of guaranteeing the rights of territorial hromadas and their members — residents of villages, towns, cities, but also becomes, in the conditions of today’s challenges, one of the most important conditions for the formation of legal democratic statehood and real municipalism.

A comprehensive conceptual and constitutional analysis of responsibility in the sphere of local self-government allows us to define it, firstly, as a type of constitutional and legal responsibility; secondly, as one of the elements of the constitutional mechanism for guaranteeing local self-government; thirdly, as an important tool for legalization and legitimization of municipal authorities as public authorities of territorial hromadas, because it is primarily the responsibility of local government bodies and officials to the population; fourthly, as a type of constitutional legal relationship of unequal parties — a power relationship based on state (or social coercion equated to it), the elements of which are mutually corresponding rights and obligations; fifthly, in the functional-teleological dimension, the basis for such responsibility is a constitutional delict in the field of local self-government; sixthly, this responsibility has a socio-political nature, which is determined by the specifics of municipal relations.

Summarizing the doctrinal approaches taken in modern legal science, it is concluded that constitutional and legal responsibility in the field of local self-government, its goals, objectives and functions are characterized by legal features that reveal its essence and content, purpose in territorial hromadas, society and the state, place in the system of guaranteeing local self-government, as well as a special role in the processes of decentralization of public power and the formation of real municipalism.

Key words: constitutional and legal responsibility, municipalism, constitutionalism, local self-government, decentralization, territorial hromada

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