Legitimacy as the basis of public administration

The article is devoted to the study of legality and discipline as one of the central principles of modern legal systems, the law of the European Union, where Ukraine is also trying to integrate. The activity of public administration bodies is not an exception in the defined sphere, because interaction with the population inevitably requires strict observance of positive law, but that is not all. A necessary element for the harmonious functioning of society and their orderliness is the observance of certain basic precepts of natural law, which wraps social relations with the spindle of its foundations and principles. At most, public administration is a type of state administration - a service that manifests itself in power-administrative activity. This type of work is a kind of «source of increased legal significance». It is substantiated that this term de jure, if it may look like an inappropriate epithet, de facto reveals the content of the issue and illuminates the actual state of affairs. The issuance of administrative decisions affects the legal fate of a specific individual or collective subject of the legal system. It was found that «service» and «services» provided at the expense of taxpayers are the terms that are intended to most fully reflect the essence of the activity of public administration bodies today, they are its key words. Simplify the lives of citizens, ensure the realization of personal property and non-property rights of a person in the field of housing, social, medical, educational issues, etc., coordinate and automate this work, guarantee permanent protection and protection of rights, balance between rights and responsibilities in society, ensure harmonious life individual social groups. At the same time, one should not forget the fact that the bodies of public administration on behalf of the state are endowed with exclusive competence, a kind of monopoly on the execution of certain actions, which is indicated by the above­mentioned emphasis on power-administrative activities in general and the mention of «increased legal significance » in particular.