A Normative Legal Act as a Means of Legal Reality Constructing

The article is devoted to the study of the role of a normative legal act in legal reality, its impact on the consciousness of behavior and citizens. Attention is drawn to the political elite as the addressee of legal communication. As a means of influencing the consciousness and behavior of the addressees, there are normatively fixed prohibitions and duties, to a lesser extent permits. Normative legal acts constitute the form of expression of these means. With the help of normative acts, the state constructs a deontological image of legal existence. The assimilation of these imperatives by an individual should ensure the value bases of human legal actions, the achievement of a regime of legality and law and order, and ensure the harmonization of all levels of legal reality. Based on the constructivist-communicative methodology, the article concludes that the normative legal act is the most important means of constructing legal reality. The legal information contained in the act is aimed at forming a value attitude in the creation of the subject to perform actions necessary to maintain law and order, to ensure satisfaction and balance of the interests of the addressee state and the addressee individual of legal communication. Influencing the consciousness and behavior of the addressee, the normative legal act not only forms in his mind the image of legal reality and its place in it, but also determines the strategy and tactics of the individual’s actions, allowing him to be a full participant in social relations for the construction of this reality and identification himself as a citizen.

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