Legal sovereignty: an attempt to justify

The purpose of the work is to identify and evaluate the most important properties of the phenomenon under consideration called «legal sovereignty». The method of system analysis, the historical-philosophical method, the formal-legal method, the philosophical method of idealism were used. The article examines the views of some domestic and foreign authors regarding this phenomenon, which has not yet found its rightful place in legal science. This is especially true of modern political and legal practice, which dictates its own conceptual and semantic discourse. In legal science, the category of «legal sovereignty» should be filled with its own semantic content as a complex political and legal property of the government and the state, expressed in the diversity of public relations between the state and citizens, the state and society, the state and the state in the international arena, the state and the people in connection with the implementation of state power. The general properties of this phenomenon are revealed. The significance of the work lies in the fact that it formulates theoretical provisions aimed at forming full-fledged ideas about legal sovereignty and the development of this property by states in modern conditions.