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Control questions and tasks for seminar 1:
1. What is a state? Specify the main causes of the state and
briefly describe them.
2. Name the theories of state origin and indicate their main

provisions.
3. What the main features of mechanism (apparatus) of the state
do you know?

4. Describe the concept of "power" and analyse its components.
5. What are public authorities?
6. Describe the functions of the state. Which are the criteria of
their division?

7. Analyse the main areas of civil society formation in Ukraine.
8. Name the regularity and ways of forming the law. Analyse the
basic features of the law and define this concept.

9. Describe the features of the legal law.
10. What are the functions of the law? How do they connect with
the functions of the state?

11. What are the sources of law? Name them varieties.
12. Give the definition of the legal state. What its features do
you know?

13. Analyse the history of development of states, existed on the
territory of modern Ukraine.
14. What are the most important legal monuments of Ukraine in
IX-XX centuries?

Themes for writing reports and individual scientific papers:
1. "Ruska Pravda" – the most important legal monument in the

period of Kyivan Rus.
2. The Constitution by Pylyp Orlyk as the realization of the
Ukrainian state idea.
3. The Ukrainian People's Republic as one of the decisive stages

in the development of the Ukrainian statehood.

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