The concept and classification of legal guarantees

Abstract

The article deals with the concept and classification of legal guarantees. The concept of guarantees as social and legal measures comprehensively show the level of development of the state, the democratic character of society, the public and legal consciousness of the population. Guarantees bind together the legal and factual position of a person in civil society, they serve as an expression of social freedom, responsibility and activity of citizens. In a broader sense, the concept of guarantees the rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen is a component of, on the one hand, the legal status of the individual, on the other, a more capacious concept of «constitutional guarantees», which means a set of legal norms and institutions that protect the constitutional principles, human rights, the foundations of the constitutional system, the fulfillment of constitutional duties and the functioning of various public authorities. Thus, it can be concluded that guarantees of human and citizen's rights and freedoms are a combination of constitutional and legal norms, institutions, means, methods, mechanisms and procedures that ensure the implementation, protection and protection of constitutional rights and freedoms of a person and citizen. In addition, it is fair to say that political, economic, spiritual prerequisites and conditions do not in themselves serve as a basis for realization of individual rights and freedoms. It should be noted that they become guarantees only through the legal form and organizational efforts of the state and society. Hence the allocation of guarantees of human and citizen's rights from the standpoint of a system that includes guarantees of general and legal. The article considers in detail the types of guarantees that have their content and forms of expression.