The Development of Integration Theories in Ukraine
Journal: Legal studies on Central Europe
Year: 2022

In the following, we cite the first lines of the preamble of the Constitution of Ukraine (1996): ‘The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, on behalf of the Ukrainian people—citizens of Ukraine of all nationalities, expressing the sovereign will of the people, based on the centuries-old history of Ukrainian statebuilding…’. The function of the preamble is to summarize the purpose of the legislator. These cited lines of the preamble of the Ukrainian constitution have not changed since it was adopted, placin