The modern concept of public power

This article discusses the use of the term public authority in the legal literature, the origins of the term, existing views, discussion approaches. Based on the proposed collectivist-willed concepts of power and on the analysis of the hierarchy of socioterritorial interests the author identified various kinds of territorial public communities (collectives), which are social sources of public power at different levels from the bottom to the top. Using the structural-functional, logical, comparative and other methods of learning, the author proposes to distinguish between five types of public power, highlighting the sovereign state power among them. In accordance with the kinds of public power the classification of organizational forms -territorial public legal entities is suggested, their features are pointed out.

public power, territorial public legal community (collectives), organizational forms of public hower