LEGAL PERSONALITY OF MINORS AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF INDIVIDUALS

Abstract

Aims. Analysis of legal personality as an element of the constitutional status of the individual, for the establishment of links with other elements of status, influence of the legal personality on the scope and content of constitutional rights, freedoms and responsibilities, implemented through the participation of citizens in the constitutional legal relations. Determining the possibility of differentiation of constitutional personality of juveniles, the full constitutional legal personality. Methods. Studying the scientific literature for theoretical views on the nature of the "personality" category and its importance in the structure of the legal status of the individual; identifying experience of legal regulation and theoretical developments available in other branches of law in the field of defining and implementing the legal personality of minors; analyzing the existing legislation in order to identify specific features of the constitutional personality of juveniles and minors. Results. Constitutional personality is an element of the constitutional status of an individual, it relates to other elements primarily to constitutional rights, freedoms, responsibilities in terms of determining their origin, content, implementation and also to constitutional and legal interests. Constitutional legal personality is neglected by the scientists-constitutionalists and yet, this item requires a deeper theoretical understanding and is more important than originally thought. Scientific novelty. Constitutional personality is an element of the constitutional status of a person consistently related to other elements of the status, first of all, in the part of identifying the availability and terms of implementation of constitutional rights, freedoms, responsibilities, constitutional and legal interests. In the process of further examining of the constitutional status of an individual in the frames of common understanding of the constitutional legal personality it is necessary to allocate, on the basis of age criteria, the constitutional legal personality of minors (persons under 14 years of age), the constitutional personality of juveniles (persons aged 14 to 18 years), full (general) constitutional personality of adults.