Universality as a property of legal principles

The article investigates the problem of universality of legal principles based on the analysis of the concept of principles of law and their basic properties, the following questions are examined: to what extent the principles of law are objective, and what are the criteria for giving legal status to the ideas of principles of law, whether legislative design of principles is their attribute or due to the understanding of the "spirit" but not the "letter" of the law, they do not need such consolidation, and finally, to what extent the principles of law are conditioned by the historical continuity of legal regulation. The authors analyze the basic properties of law principles, allowing to consider them as the universal flexible means which are capable to correlate changes in objective law with the basic law, with its primary ideological component, and to provide a balance between objective and subjective law.