Title: Преамбула конституції: юридична природа та практика внесення змін
Abstract: The article clarifies the legal nature of the preamble of the constitution and the practice of amending it. It is concluded that the preamble of each constitution (if any) may play a different role in the legal system due to the specifics of legal techniques. Of course, this does not exclude certain scientific and theoretical generalizations, but still they must take into account the specifics of national constitutional and legal practice. Foreign experience, although in isolated cases, in general, demonstrates the fundamental possibility of amending the preamble of the constitution. Another thing is that each such case was unique and the changes to the preamble had a very significant justification or fit into existing doctrinal construction. Thus, in France, the preamble was amended in 2005 by a law of March 1, 2005, which included a reference to the Environmental Charter in the preamble and thus expanded the list of sources of the "constitutional bloc". The experience of amending the preamble of the constitution in India, Latvia and Germany has been successful. In this case, for example, Australia still cannot solve the problem of preamble to its constitution. Of course, by amending the preamble, we thereby, directly or indirectly, expect certain regulatory consequences of such changes. By the way, it is this discourse on regulatory consequences that has long deterred Australia from updating (creating) the preamble of the constitution. In Ukraine, with the exception of some opinions of judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, changes to the preamble of the Constitution did not meet with any particular resistance. By Law № 2680-VIII of February 7, 2019, the fifth paragraph of the preamble was supplemented with the words "confirming the European identity of the Ukrainian people and the irreversibility of the European and Euro-Atlantic course of Ukraine". At the same time, the normative meaning of the preamble has not yet been clarified.