Social contract and problems of its legal embodiment in Ukraine

Abstract

In contemporary socio-political studies, a social contract is usually viewed not as a concrete historical event, fixed by a number of documents available for research, but as the designation of some features of a long-standing historical process, which resulted in the emergence of modern liberal-democratic societies, to which Ukraine aspires A social contract is valid only if it recognizes at least the majority of members of society. Otherwise, while remaining a legitimate reason for the existence of a society, he loses his legitimacy. For the normal existence of a social organism, not only the content of the social contract, but also the method of its conclusion, should be legitimate.