System of legal limitations on state power: in search of criteria

Abstract

In the presented paper, some questions concerning the system of legal limitations on state power were covered. In the search for universal criteria for limiting power, the evolution of the main theories of such was analyzed in accordance with the chronology of their emergence and subsequent modernization: the limitation on power by another power, self-limitation of state power, the limitation of state power by law and human rights in conjunction with contemporary problems of limiting a state power in a state governed by the rule of law. Based on the results of the study, a conclusion was drawn on the role of law as the main criterion for limiting state power in the context of the legal state paradigm