Аннотации:
The article reveals the theoretical and historical issues of identifying civil society and its main features. The
dynamic nature of this political and legal phenomenon, associated in the law theory and state with the law,
has been identified. The experience of researching civil society in different historical periods under historical
retrospective, the variability and development of this institution in the theories and various authors’
approaches have been considered. The research purpose is to point out the civil society’s main features
by revealing its main functions. Using general and special research methods, the analysis and generalization
of historical and theoretical material, political and legal acts, which define the concept and civil society features,
were carried out. The concept and features of the civil society definition were determined while civil
control was considered as the main and defining civil society feature in the relationship between civil society
and the law rule. Civil society is viewed as a political and legal category that requires legal regulation of these
relationships. As a result, the authors of the article conclude that civil control and civil monitoring are the
main civil society features in relations with the legal state. These relationships require more detailed legal
regulation and legal status of civil society determination of the institutions that exercise civil control and civil
monitoring.
