Review

The institution of constitutional and legal responsibility is quite new in the system of national law. Scientific views on this type of legal responsibility differ from its complete denial to its identification with measures of political influence. It is also worth noting the fact that the problems of constitutional responsibility are quite often highlighted in the scientific literature, and the issues of responsibility in various spheres have been studied only fragmentarily. At the same time, the content of constitutional responsibility is understood in different ways. Firstly, as the responsibility of the state, state authorities and officials in the sphere of protection of the rights and interests of local self-government, and secondly, as the responsibility of the local self-government bodies themselves to the territorial community, the state, legal entities and individuals for the proper resolution of issues of local importance, implementation of the Constitution and laws of Ukraine.

The purpose of this study is to clarify the nature, essence, and specifics of constitutional and legal responsibility in Ukraine. When studying this issue, the legal nature of constitutional and legal responsibility was characterized; the signs and features of constitutional and legal responsibility are outlined; the concept and types of grounds of constitutional and legal responsibility are disclosed; domestic legislation on issues of constitutional and legal responsibility was analyzed; the types of constitutional and legal responsibility of the state authorities of Ukraine are determined.

Therefore, the relevance of the study is determined, on the one hand, by the need to create a coherent theory of constitutional and legal responsibility as an independent type of legal responsibility, and on the other hand, by the need to improve the current legislation in the field of applying constitutional and legal sanctions to relevant subjects. That is why the study of theoretical and practical problems of constitutional and legal responsibility is an actual direction of development of modern constitutional and legal science.

Key words: state, responsibility, state authorities, impeachment, constitutional law.