Tetyana Tren’s scientific contributions

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The authors have aimed to clarify the common and distinctive features in the constitutional regulation of the procedure for amending the constitutions of Ukraine and some post-Soviet counries. Based on the results of a comparative analysis of the constitutions of Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Kazakhstan, common and distinctive features of the constitutional regulation of amendments to them have been identified according to the following criteria: 1) initiators of amendments to the Constitution; 2) forms of citizen participation in the process of amending the Fundamental Law; 3) bodies authorized to exercise control over the constitutionality of amendments to the Constitution; 4) issues on which amendments to the Constitution are not allowed, and conditions under which such amendments are prohibited; 5) bodies (entities) that have the right to make decisions on amendments to the Fundamental Law. It has been proved that the constitutional process (in the narrow sense) is an integral part of the legislative process, has the full name «legislative constitutional process» and consists of a system of successive stages (actions). There is the author's definition of the term «legislative constitutional process». It is a legally significant activity of the Ukrainian people and the Parliament of the state determined by national rules, which is a system of interconnected successive stages aimed at regulating public relations to change, abolish or create legal rules objectified in the Fundamental Law of the state. « It is proved that this aspect of the legislative constitutional process is generally regulated at the level of the Constitution of Ukraine and legislative acts. At the same time, modern European integration processes and the development of the state as a democratic and legal one require the improvement of this procedure, in particular in terms of wider involvement of civil society actors in this process. There is the authors’ suggestion to amend Art. 69 and 157 of the Constitution of Ukraine.