THE IMPORTANCE OF IDEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND POLITICAL PLURALISM FOR THE DOMESTIC STATE: CONSTITUTIONAL–LEGAL AND THEORETICAL–LEGAL ASPECTS

УДК 342.72/.73 ББК: 67.400

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to emphasize the role and significance of the constitutional principle ofideological diversity and political pluralism for maintaining the democratic foundations of the nationalstatehood. The authors show that the existence of this or that ideology is possible only within the frameworkof a constitutionally fixed legal ideology, the essence of which is to maintain a balance of constitutional values, the interests of society, the state and the individual. The paper establishes that the principle of ideologicaldiversity and political pluralism is of particular importance in a democratic constitutional state. Indeed, insuch a state, pluralism, formalized in the form of ideological diversity, is the basis of the constitutional order.Moreover, the priority of human rights as the most important foundation of the rule of law cannot be fullyrealized outside the above-mentioned principles of ideological diversity. The most complete realization ofthese rights and obligations is possible precisely in conditions of ideological diversity.