General regulatory legal relations in the system of legal regulation: nature and functional role

Purpose of the study. The article examines the legal nature, sectoral specificity of perception, and systemic role of general regulatory legal relations in the mechanism of legal regulation. Based on an analysis of doctrinal positions and constitutional grounds, the need to recognize this type of legal relationship as a fundamental, system-forming element of the legal order is demonstrated. Conclusions. Despite their specificity (the absence of personal individualization, arising from the fact of the existence of the subject), general regulatory legal relations possess all the characteristics of a legal connection and perform a unique function. They form a static, fundamental basis of the legal order, enshrining the initial normative provisions at the constitutional level and forming the state's obligation to specify it. Thus, general regulatory legal relations act as a necessary highest level in the systemic hierarchy of legal regulation, being in a relationship of interdependence and consistent implementation with specific legal relations.