Шульженко, Федір ПилиповичShulzhenko, FedirШульженко, Фёдор ФилипповичМаркарян, Марина ВалеріївнаMarkarian, MarynaМаркарян, Марина Валерьевна2020-04-222020-04-222019Шульженко Ф. П. Становлення ідеї демократичної, правової державності в політичному процесі англійського суспільства XVII століття / Ф. П. Шульженко, М. В. Маркарян // Юридична Україна. – 2019. – № 6. – С. 9–15.2308-9636https://ir.kneu.edu.ua:443/handle/2010/32777In this scientific paper using modern methods of scientific understanding of social phenomena, the authors have carried out the historical and legal introspection of the connections and interferences in the political process, legal ideology, and creation of regulatory acts of English society of the seventeenth century. The authors have established the characteristics of the development of state and legal views of the Protestants and in particular Independents and Levellers as well as the conceptual formation of the theory of state organization of a democratic and legal character. The article stresses the fact that the academic heritage of the Western democracies is not taken into account in Ukraine and its legal system is contradictory and does not correspond to the Western values. The authors present a position that explains that the cause of the political crisis in Ukraine is the conflict of the legal norms determining the legal status and functions of state bodies. The Parliament and other state bodies do not introduce international democratic traditions. The above-mentioned increases the relevancy level of the research offered by the authors. The methodology used by the authors has allowed establishing the characteristics of the formation of legal consciousness of the contemporary English society, the formation of the idea of the democratic, legal state and civil society as well as legal mechanisms for their management in the practice of state establishment. The authors have substantially analysed the theoretical generalization of the political process in England by John Locke, stressed some of its aspects that have become the foundation of further development of the separation of powers theory, the fundamental principle of democratic state of legal character.ukdemocratic statelegal stateparliamentarismpolitical processpolitical process subjectslegal ideologylegal consciousnessprinciple of division of powerArticle340.12