The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the norms of the constitutional law of Ukraine. The authors analyzed some issues of the theory of norms of the constitutional law of Ukraine, features of its legal (normative) nature, the genesis of norms of the constitutional law of Ukraine. Investigated the essence of the Constitution and the direct effect of the Constitution of Ukraine. The legal peculiarities of the norms of the constitutional law in the material and procedural aspects were singled out. They provided a classification of constitutional and statutory norms and their legal features. Demonstrated the unconventional structure of the norm of constitutional law.

The authors of this article analysed doctrinal provisions, as well as Ukrainian constitutional legal practice. The social component of the system of functions of the modern state was studied. The present article analyses the activities of states where an intellectual, political, and practical breakthrough was made in solving the problem of state functions in the context of socio-economic reform. Attention is drawn to the specifics of the implementation of social activities of the Ukrainian state. The methodological framework of this study includes the main general scientific methods, namely socio-economic methods and techniques of the empirical level of cognition, the method of systematic analysis of numerous theoretical provisions on positive law, historical and statistical methods, the method of comparisons and analogies, generalisation methods, an analytical review of the available scientific publications on the subject under study. Furthermore, scientific methods in the field of legal science were also employed, such as normative-logical, comparative legal, historical legal. It was concluded that a social state is a state whose policy has a priority social orientation, which is expressed in the appropriate service of civil society by the state, the creation of necessary and sufficient conditions for the realisation of economic, social, and cultural human rights, the guarantee of its social protection and social security, based on the socio-economic capabilities of the state based on the principles of justice, proportionality, and a harmonious combination (balance) of public and human interests