Regarding Enshrining the Course to the EU and NATO in the Constitution of Ukraine
The article researches amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine submitted on February 7, 2019 regarding their reasonableness and the way of enshrining. Attention has been focused on motivation part as well as forecasts described in the explanatory note to the draft law No. 9037 of 03.09. 2018. Provisions which supplemented or changed the norms of the Constitution were analyzed. The issue regarding enshrining a specific geopolitical course of the state in the Constitution, identification of its civilized membership has been investigated. Amended and other provision of the Constitution of Ukraine, an explanatory note to the draft law No. 9037 of September 3, 2018 as well as scientific works on the issues referred to this issue have been analyzed. Results of sociological survey which the legislator used when it motivated necessity to amend the Constitution of Ukraine have been investigated. Personal opinion on possibility to use this research during amendments to the Basic Law has been provided. Provisions which would be reasonable to be introduced to the constitutional text have been thoroughly thought. Recommendations regarding the way of enshrining of constitutional provisions which was chosen by legislator have been made. Personal conclusions regarding formalization of the legislator's idea to enshrine mentioned ideas in the Constitution of Ukraine have been made. Problems which in author's opinion are connected with amendments made to the Constitution have been identified. The reasons for such problems as well as the means of their overcoming have been researched into. Attention was drawn to international experience regarding mentioning of international organizations in constitutions. The author has attempted to identify the reasonableness of amendments which related to foreign policy in general as well as to choose the best way for reforming of constitutional text.