DAVIT SAROYAN

Applicant at the Institute of Philosophy,

Sociology and Law of the National Academy

of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2025.4-6-3

Annotation.

This scientific article thoroughly discusses the prerequisites for the establishment of a social-legal state. In the article, the author develops a conceptual approach according to which the socio-legal state is a single integral state-legal system in which the legal and social are not imposed, but combine and complement each other.

The legal foundations and social foundations of a socio-legal state must correspond to each other, act side by side, together, which expresses the nature, essence and mission of this state.

Thus, the activity of the social legal state is oriented towards creating conditions for the realization of the right to a dignified life for the largest number of citizens.

A social-legal state is not a mechanical coexistence of the features of a «social» and a «legal» state, but rather, by its nature and essence, is a feature of a single, holistic state, in which the legal and the social are in a complex dialectical interdependence, which few states currently claim to be. In scientific literature, a socio-legal state is defined as a state that ensures the conditions for the exercise of the right to a dignified life by every person.

The issues of establishing a legal state are legally related to constitutional amendments, which are clearly enshrined in the social, economic and legislative foundations of a legal state, since it is a constitutional state in which law and constitutional legitimacy prevail, as well as the constitutionalization of legal norms. A legal state is a sovereign political organization based on the rule of law, in which the protection of human rights and freedoms is guaranteed.

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