Many democratic countries in Europe seek to form a law-governed state. In Lithuania this model is formulated as the long term and strategic ideal of the State’s development, which we find in the preamble of 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania. Law-governed state is responsible for realization of the rights and freedom of all the citizens, it has to ensure the separation of powers in the State, the legality of actions of the authority and all the public and private organizations and the supremacy of Constitution. At the end of XXth century researchers noticed, that various branches of national law also practice of using of legal norms and even science of law, undergoes bigger and bigger influence of Constitution and its values. Constitution penetrates deeper and deeper into the whole legal life. Constitutional fixing of the main personal rights and freedoms, direct implementation of Constitution, appearance of the institutions of the constitutional control and their active proceeding, possibility to defend one’s rights using Constitution, makes the main law of the country the real centre of life. Today the national law is looked at through the prism of constitutionality. Constitutional principle of the law-governed state is one of the most important principles of our Constitution. It has all the elements of the law-governed state. Besides, this principle means, that this kind of development of State is legalized by the highest law in Lithuania – the Constitution... [to full text]