Legality and its interpretations in modern political and legal thought

The article examines the problems of legality and its various interpretations in the history of modern political and legal thought, following which not only forms approaches to understanding the very meaning of the relevant concept, but also is associated with a number of characteristic assessments of the role and importance of legality in public life, in the field of state-building, protection of human rights and freedoms. Depending on the interpretations of legality, an idea of it develops as a problem not only of a state-practical plan, but also a fundamental legal problem and a topic accompanying the evolution of political and legal thought from ancient times to the present day. Already in the ancient formula of legitimate justice, the requirement of combining law and law, the impossibility of arbitrary content of the law, is read. In the philosophy of law and the theory of law of the last two centuries, the problem of distinguishing and correlating legality and legitimacy has begun to replace traditional dualism in legal science and ideas about types of legal understanding. At the same time, in the logic of legality and legitimacy, the first is defined from the point of view of legal theory, and the second, as if simultaneously, from the position of political science or political sociology. With such a distortion of the principle of identity, disputes and disagreements are not only not solvable, but are also resolved using cognitive and explanatory techniques and means that are different in nature.