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economic and political contents. Many legal practices with the
emergence of the state have been adapted or sanctioned by it, and they
have become the official rules of law and laws. In addition, the state
issues the normative legal acts and laws to regulate new social

relations, arising from the development of society.
Being the "regulatory norm of political communication", the
law, as noted by ancient Greek thinker Aristotle, must serve as a

"criterion of justice".
What is a "true law"? – Cicero asked, one of the authors of
Roman law, a state and political figure. And he answered, –
correlating the law not only with justice and good but also with nature,

with the natural being of a person: it is "a reasonable position that
corresponds to nature, extends to all people, permanent, eternal which
calls for fulfilment of duty.”

In the legal sense, the word “law” is a system of mandatory
rules of conduct, formally determined, established and enforced
by the state. These rules are represented in the legislation system of

the state.
The essence and social purpose of law is revealed through its
features:

- law is a system of interconnected norms where each norm has
its own clearly defined place and interconnection with other norms
(systemacy);
- law consists of general rules, originated for repeated

application (normative);
- law acts as a regulator of social relations, and this is its main
social value (regulatory);

- legal orders are mandatory, addressed to all participants of the
legal relationship and are obligatory for them (general obligation);
- law is connected with the state, first of all, by the fact that legal
norms are established or authorized by the state and protected by state

coercion (connection with the state);
- legal norms are written and they have a clear logical structure;
- law exercises the fundamental rights and freedoms of a person,

gives a legitimate opportunity to realize his/her interests without
violating the rights and freedoms of other people.
The law is a legal expression of right. The “spirit” of law and the

“letter” of law are differentiated. The “spirit” of law reflects the right,

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