PARTICIPATION OF IHOR YUKHNOVSKY IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES OF 1990 – 1996
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The purpose of the study is to elucidatethe content of I. Yukhnovsky's activity as a lawmaker and an active participant in the constitutional processes of the first half of the 1990s. The research methodology.The main methods used in the study of this issue were: comparative and historical, chronological, historical and genetic, historical and typological, synchronous, as well as biographical and prosopographic approaches.There were useful oral history materials in the form of memoirs and interviews of participants and witnesses of the events of 1990 – 1996. The Scientific Novelty. Despite the special role of Academician I. Yukhnovsky in the development of constitutionalism in Ukraine, there are no scientific studies in domestic historiography whichwould shed light on his contribution to constitutional rule-making. The Conclusions. In the article there has been elucidated I. Yukhnovsky's participation in the activities of the Constitutional Commission of 1990 – 1993, and elaboration of the Concept of the Basic Law in June of 1991;there has been characterized the activity of the democratic bloc of the People's Council, the leader of which I. Yukhnovsky was,in search of a political compromise with the pro-communist majority of the Verkhovna Rada for the formation of democratic principles of a domestic constitutional process. Inthearticle therehavebeenalso highlightedthe measures of I. Yukhnovsky to overcome the contradictions between the legislative and executive branches of powerin Ukraine and resumptionofwork on the Basic Law; and therehasbeenalso characterizedhis participation in achieving apolitical parity in the form of the Constitutional Agreement of 1995 in the work on the final version of the Constitution of Ukraine. It is stated that I. Yukhnovsky always tried to combine the best achievements of world constitutionalism with the historical traditions of the Ukrainian state formation.
Key words: Ihor Yukhnovsky, theConstitution of Ukraine, People's Rada, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Concept of the Constitution, Leonid Kuchma, Constitutional Agreement.
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