HERBERT HARUTYUNYAN

PhD Student at the Chair of Constitutional Law of Yerevan State University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2025.1-3-13

Annotation.

The work is dedicated to the study of the issue of the manifestation of legal awareness in political processes, which is of great importance in the formation of civil society and the establishment of a legal state in RA. The aim of the work is to highlight the role and importance of legal awareness in the ongoing political processes in the Republic of Armenia, to understand the importance of legal awareness in the establishment of civil society and the legal state. The work analyzed the importance of legal awareness in the context of political socialization and society-state relations, the place and role of legal awareness in the formation of civil society in the Republic of Armenia, highlighted the features of legal awareness in Armenian society, and highlighted the importance of legal awareness in the establishment of a legal state.

On the one hand, a section of civil society has a high level of legal awareness, which is manifested in civil initiatives carried out by citizens to protect their interests and rights. And on the other hand, in a general sense, a very low level of legal awareness was revealed among the public, even absolute ignorance in some issues. The formation of a legal state is definitely possible in the case of high legal awareness. Of course, the formation of a legal state cannot take place without certain political processes, because they, for example, the ideas about the constitutional state, the separation of powers, the rule of law, the protection of human rights and freedoms, are possible. can be implemented only if there is political will. Without political will, the above-mentioned ideas, which are the basis of the legal state, will remain merely declared principles without real practical application. Therefore, the primary actor in this political process is the state, which is the only institution that can guide the society in the formation of the legal state by road.

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