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DOI 10.37566/2707-6849-2020-3(32)-2

Albert EZEROV,

Judge, The Supreme Court, Candidate of Law, Associate Professor

APPLICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION IN THE EXERCISE OF JUSTICE: BASIC PRINCIPLES

The article focuses attention on the fact that the phenomenon of the Constitution is not limited to the constitutional text, since the Constitution, first of all, is a system of basic values designed to limit any manifestations of arbitrariness of public authority to ensure human rights.

At the same time, it is noted that the «tangible» for the constitutional system exactly is the embodiment of the material Constitution as a text and a system of legal requirements in lawmaking and law enforcement, which directly depends on the subjects of law «users» of the Constitution.

It is noted that the application by the courts of the Constitution as an act of direct action allows filling in the gaps and eliminating other defects in the legislation, is one of the dimensions the embodiment of the supremacy of the Constitution of Ukraine in the law application. It has also been established that the provisions of Article 8 of the Constitution, according to which its norms are direct action norms, and an appeal to the court to protect the constitutional rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen directly on the basis of the Constitution of Ukraine are guaranteed in a systematic connection with Article 150 of the Constitution according to that powers the Constitutional Court of Ukraine refers to the resolution of issues of compliance with the Constitution of Ukraine (constitutionality) of laws and other legal acts, cannot restrict courts in competence of direct application of the Constitution and solution to the issue of compliance with any other regulatory acts, that should be applied in a specific case.

It has been proved that one of the mechanisms for ensuring the direct operation of the norms of the Constitution is the review of court decisions in view of exceptional circumstances, which is one of the manifestations of the «responsibility» of the state and responsible public administration, since in this way the state fulfills its the duty to restore of human rights as a consequence violation due adopting an act that has the subject of judicial constitutional review and recognized as unconstitutional.

It is summarized that the Constitution will be real only with the active position of the courts on the application of its provisions in resolving disputes, and the courts will occupy a prominent place in the system of separation of powers, only if the Constitution will be basis of judicial decisions.

Keywords: courts of the judicial system, Constitution of Ukraine, implementation of justice, constitutional politics, constitutional conflicts, generic principles, application of constitutional norms, human dignity, constitutional values.

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