Economic Rights and Freedoms of a Person in Ukraine: Concept, Types, General Overview

Abstract

The article reveals the essence and importance of basic economic rights and freedoms in Ukraine in the realities of our time. It is noted that the economic rights and freedoms of people, together with their personal rights, firmly established themselves in the period of bourgeois-democratic revolutions in Europe and the wars of independence in the Americas at the end of XVIII-XIX centuries. Over the past 300 years the economic rights and freedoms gained basis mechanisms for their implementation and protection, but have not lost their fundamental importance for the formation and functioning of the so-called «middle class», which is the social-economic basis in the majority economically developed countries in the world.The emphasis is laid on the characteristics of the fundamental rights, economic rights and freedoms of the citizens defined by the Constitution of Ukraine, namely: the right to private property (Art. 41); the right to entrepreneurial activity that is not prohibited by law (Art. 42); the right to use objects of the state or municipal property (Art. 41) and the common property of the Ukrainian people (Art. 13).