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relations that arise and operate in the process of exercising power by
the people of Ukraine, that is, the social relations that arise between a
person and the state over the organization of state power and state
system in general, in particular:

1. Relations, which constitute the fundamental principles of
democracy, sovereignty of people.
The sovereignty of people is the natural right of people to be

supreme and sovereign in their territory. Sovereignty is potential and
real.
Any ethnic group owns potential sovereignty, regardless of
whether it has its statehood or not, whether it is recognized by other

states and nations or not.
Real sovereignty is the realization of people’s sovereign rights,
their will to go in the way they consider the best. The sovereign will of

the people of Ukraine is freely formed and embodied in the relevant
documents (primarily in the Constitution of Ukraine), is the only
source of state power.

2. Relations that determine the peculiarities of organizing state
power, local self-government, i.e. system, procedure of formation and
competence of its bodies.

Power is a necessary way of organizing society, processes
occurring there, including at the expense of imperative methods,
which include the possibility of subjection of subject’s will to the
authorities, the use of coercive if it is necessary.

State sovereignty is the supremacy of state power within the
state and its independence in the external relations.
The Declaration on State Sovereignty (adopted on July 16, 1990)

has consolidated the following manifestations of state sovereignty:
- supremacy of the Constitution and laws of the Republic on its
territory;
- citizenship of Ukraine;

- inviolability of the territory of Ukraine;
- economic independence of Ukraine;
- Ukraine's independence in the organization of nature

conservation and the use of its natural resources;
- independence in solving the issues of science, education,
cultural and spiritual development of the Ukrainian nation and all

nationalities living on its territory;

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