The purpose of the article is to research the nature of the law-making activity of the state using the achievements of modern domestic legal science in the question of rethinking the nature and nature of the right on the basis of the doctrine of popular sovereignty, a clarified understanding of the sources of the right, a deeper explanation of the nature of its relations with society and the state, disclosure and its true role in the formation and operation of the right. The axiological, anthropological, systemic, analytical, hermeneutical, comparative-historical, formal-legal methods of research of legal phenomena are used. It is stated that the legalistic understanding of the essence of the right-making, the law-making and the rulemaking activity as a specific activity of specially authorized bodies for establishing, amending or abolishing legal norms in the form of adoption of normative-legal acts or as a form of government activity state bodies, their legal entities prevails today, local governments, or other entities. These views do not take into account the deep, essential aspects of the nature of the right, the process of its formation, and therefore distort the role of the state in the process of the right-making. Which, accordingly, influences the understanding of the requirements to the rulemaking activity of public authorities, not allowing to justify, develop and introduce proper mechanisms of control over these activities by the public, to affirm the rule of law in the activity of public authorities, to optimize the rulemaking procedures, to protect human rights.The result of the study is an attempt to formulate the basic, initial provisions of the doctrine of the nature and nature of the rulemaking activity of the state, which would be based on a crystallized understanding of the essence of the right and the law, their correct relationship, and accordingly the understanding of the relationship between the right-making and the law-making, clarifying the nature and nature of the process of the law-making. This approach gives the possibility of theoretical and legal understanding and further improvement of the legal foundations of the Ukrainian state and national legislation, legislative activity of the parliament, the rulemaking activity of public authorities.