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Brotherhood, a student at the Faculty of Law of the Kyiv University.
He saw the future of Ukraine as a sovereign state formation – an
integral part of the Confederation of Slavic peoples. The prominent
scientist M. Drahomanov proposed to reorganize tsarist Russia into a

federal republic where citizens would be provided with broad personal
and political rights; the institution of democracy was actually created,
taking into account both the system of higher representative bodies

and the organs of regional and local self-government.
In the beginning of the 20th century the Ukrainian constitutional
and legal opinion was vividly represented by the drafts of the
Constitution of M. Mikhnovskyi ("The Basic Law of Independent

Ukraine – the Union of the Ukrainians", 1905) and M. Hrushevskyi
("The Constitutional Issue and the Ukrainians in Russia", 1905),
which in many provisions continued the constitutional and legal

traditions, laid by M. Drahomanov. The project of M. Mikhnovskyi
also foresaw the future of Ukraine only as an independent state with a
republican form of government, with the original system of territorial

organization, with the President of Ukraine as the head of state and the
head of the executive branch.
The important stage in the history of Ukrainian constitutions is

the period of the UNR – ZUNR (1917-1923), which is presented as a
series of constitutional acts (four Universals of the Ukrainian Central
Council, the Constitution of the UPR, the laws of the UPR on the state
symbols, citizenship, national and personal autonomy, the Provisional

Basic Law of the ZUNR, its legislation, the Act of Union of January
18, 1919, the constitutional acts of the Ukrainian State by Hetman
Pavlo Skoropadskyi), as well as a number of constitutional projects (in

particular, the "Draft Constitution of the UNR" by the professor of the
Kyiv University Otto Eihelman (1920), the draft Constitution of the
UNR by Dr. Stepan Baran (1920), the draft Constitution of the UNR
of the Government Commission (1920), two projects of the

Constitution of the ZUNR by the professor of the Lviv University
Stanislav Dnistrovskyi – "The Order of the Galician State (1918) and
"The Constitution of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic"

(1920), etc.
These documents (in the overwhelming majority) envisaged the
re-establishment of the independent democratic Ukrainian state with

the republican form of government, the state where the rights of a

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