Public ideals in a democratic state
The presented article is devoted to the social ideals that ensure state coercion in a democratic society. According to the author, in the structure of social ideals there are two main subsystems: a national idea and democratic values, which are manifested in specific legislative regulations. The article notes that legal regulations are based on the idea of the primacy of the values being proclaimed, which determine the priority tasks and goals of legal regulation. In democratic states, legal norms are maximally merged with social ideals and corresponding social and ethical prescriptions.