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The article is devoted to the study of the principles of law as an integrative element of the legal system. The author examines on the basis integration coherences with various components of the legal system, in particular the integration of the principles of law with the ideological components of the legal system, which further influences the formation and development of the legal system as a doctrinal component. The external orientation of the integrative influence of the principles of law, which is mediated in the interaction of the legal system with the social system (society) due to the integrative properties of the principles of law, is considered The author emphasized the importance of the principles of law and their integrational influence on the development of the legal system of Ukraine, because of the important elements of the legal system, the principles occupy one of the main places. Principles of law represent a system of the most general and stable imperative requirements and express the idea and spirit of the law. The study of law principles as an integrative element of the legal system should also be considered through the lens of their functions, which will explain – how is the integration of the main elements of the legal system, how this system-saving mechanism works. For this purpose, it is proposed to dwell on the most illustrative directions of influence of the principles of law as their functions within the system: system-forming, regulatory, law-enforcement, value, law-making, ideological. Understanding the principles of law as an integrative element of the legal system is conditioned by the presence in the methodology of modern jurisprudence of a wide range of cognitive tools, including an integrative approach to understanding legal phenomena. Illustration of the unifying role of principles in law and the legal system, in particular, allows us to reemphasize their importance in relation to other phenomena of legal reality, to understand the cause and effect relationships between individual elements in the structure of systemic entities. The integrative role of the principles of law appears in two directions of the functioning of the legal system – external and internal. In the external direction, their role is to provide the integration of the legal system into the higher level of society, which allows asserting the indirect influence of the principles of law. In the internal direction, the role of the principles of law evolves itself both in the facts of ensuring the interaction of individual phenomena and in the fact of the existence of the proper legal system, which combines legal ideas and values, group and individual interests, dynamic and static phenomena of reality. Keywords: principles of law, the legal system, integrative, functions of law principles.
I.Ya. Stanko (Wed,) studied this question.