People’s sovereignty principle and its role in the formation of legislation on public service in Ukraine

Abstract

The article takes into account Ukraine’s course to deepen European integration in order to gain EU membership, which involves the implementation of the Council of Europe’s principles of "good governance", other European standards and best international governance practices. As a result of the analysis of the main components of the concept of people’s sovereignty, the concept of public service in Ukraine is substantiated and developed, which provides coverage of all subjects of power, regardless of the specialization of tasks and functions of the state and society. It is proposed to take the concept as a basis for solving the problem of existing separate regulatory acts in the spheres of state and military service, organization and activity of local self-government bodies, prosecutor’s office, Security Service of Ukraine and other authorities, state and municipal bodies. The lack of a system of regulations is the reason for inconsistencies or differences in their provisions. There are no legal norms on certain issues of the service, which is an obstacle to the formation of a holistic concept of public service in Ukraine, unambiguous in terms of the constituent elements of the concepts of «civil service», «public service», «civil servant», «civil servant». This has the form of imperfection of legislative support of relevant relations, lack of a unified approach to the allocation of components, principles of organization and functioning of public service in Ukraine, to determine the place of all state bodies in its apparatus and mechanism, taking the constitutional principle of separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers