Constitutional and legal status of man and citizen: certain issues of the theory of constitutionalism

The article is devoted to the analysis of scientific approaches to determining the constitutional and legal status of a person. Thespecifics of the norm of the constitutional law of Ukraine in the context of enshrining in it the basic provisions of the constitutional andlegal status of a person and a citizen are revealed.It is determined that the primary and one of the most important elements of the system of constitutional law of Ukraine is theconstitutional law (from the Latin norma – rule, model). The norms of constitutional law as components of the system of constitutionallaw of Ukraine in their entirety reflect the essence and content of this branch of law. Given this, they are sometimes compared withcells, as the basis of any living organism, biological system.The content of the legal status of man is determined by all the norms and relations governed by them that arise between the stateand man in connection with its actual place in the socio-economic, political and spiritual-moral life of our society. These relations arevery diverse, they cover various aspects of life and therefore are governed by the rules of not one, but almost all branches of law.At the same time, constitutional norms play a special role here. Due to their general regulatory nature, they outline the positionof citizens not in any one area of activity, but in its main areas. At the same time, they establish only the most essential, fundamentalrelations between the state and its citizens in connection with their place in the management of public and state affairs, leaving detailedregulation of such relations to the norms of other industries.