Legal State as an Integral Part of Human Rights Protection

The article discusses the protection of human rights in a legal and democratic country. In the context of the human rights protection, the concept of the rule of law and the principle of the rule of law, based on the distinction between law and principle, is explored. It also examines that the state practically acquires the characteristics of social harmony when it has the goal of realizing the human right to a decent life, imposes obligations to perform a significant social function – the implementation of social policies aimed at developing and implementing a system of reforms and social protection measures. The reality indicates that a person is less protected before the state and the mechanism of its responsibility is quite effective, unlike the mechanism of responsibility before the person, in Ukraine it practically does not work. And the latest in the context of the development of a legal state is evidence of a certain level of democratic transformations. Therefore, special attention in the context of the formation of a legal state should be paid to the institution of responsibility before a person, as one of the basic guarantees of human rights and freedoms enshrined in current legislation. Thanks to this, a weakening of the state’s pressure on society is achieved, and at the same time the possibility of its control over the actions of the state and the decisions of its organs and officials is increased