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LECTURE 1
THEORY OF STATE AND LAW.
HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN STATEHOOD

Lecture plan

1.1. State: concept, basic theories of origin, attributes and

functions.
1.2. Law: concept, attributes and functions.
1.3. The role of law in the formation of legal state and civil
society.

1.4. States that existed on the territory of modern Ukraine.
1.5. The most important legal monuments of Ukraine in IX-XX
centuries.

Keywords of the theme: state, civil society, legal state, social
right and legal right, objective right and subjective right, morality,
functions, rules of law, sources of law, systematization of law.

1.1. State: concept, basic theories of origin, attributes and

functions.

The term "state" during a long historical period did not have a
scientific definition, the concept and its contents often changed. For

example, the French king, Louis XIV, equated the state with his
supreme authority and said that "I am a statehood." He was right,
since all the supreme power belonged to him but it isn’t correct to

identify the power of only one monarch with a state power. In the
former USSR, the term (slogan) was used: "We are the state," the state
was identified with all the people. Although the people and the
citizens are very closely connected with the state but to identify them

is incorrectly. V.I. Lenin identified the state with a mechanism to
suppress one class by another. But such and similar definitions of the
state are not scientific; they were used as a justification by the

authoritarian regimes.
The state is the basis of an organized society, a special power
organization, performing specific functions to preserve the unity of a

socially diverse society and ensure the functioning of the most

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