The role of public formations in the formation of civil society: historical and legal review

Abstract

A developed civil society is a condition for democratic governance, as its existence facilitates the protection of individual and public interests of citizens, inhibits the usurpation of power, and ensures the accountability of power to society. Civil society actively promotes the processes of political democratization, the acquisition of legal characteristics by the state, defending the material and spiritual independence of man from the state, seeking a legal guarantee of such independence, protection of private and public interests.