Svetlana Vladimirovna Boshno

the position of the subjects of legal relations to each 
other, mediated by their rights and responsibilities, characterizes the method 
of legal regulation. Coordination (equality) and subordination (obedience of one 
to another) are two main positions of the subjects with respect to one another.
In the enjoyment of rights and responsibilities, 
various means of ensuring 
and protection of the rule of law can be used. A set of these legal means is 
enough defined, it has been developed and is practically unchanged: punishment, 
reward. The formation of specific instruments within legal means is rather 
changeable, responds to changes in the social environment, the form of the 
state, legal ideology and other factors. So, it can be applied the death penalty, 
fine, deprivation of special rights and a broad range of sanctions, which are just 
determined by a form of a state. For example, a democratic state of law proclaims 
the principles of individualization and proportionality of punishment, humanism, 
which significantly affect the range of the means that the state can apply to 
controlled subjects. Thus, it is hardly possible today to enforce law by burning at 
the stake violators of traffic rules. 
Basis of occurrence of legal relationship defines a set of means of legal 
interaction on subjects of law. Parties enter into a civil legal agreement of their 
own will, at their own risk. Legal rules provide them with the freedom to choose 
when entering into these relationships, they have the ability by themselves to 
determine their mutual rights and obligations in the agreement, provided that 
they comply with legislation. Contractual relationship is equal; the sanctions are 
intended to ensure the interests of parties to the contract.
Legal relations arising out of acts of public authorities, have powerful 
nature. State documents impose responsibilities on the participants of relations 
unilaterally without the participation of the subjects of legal relations. It is this 
relationship to be a primary protection of the public authorities by virtue of their 
public origin.
Public relations can be regulated by government orders, for example, 
management of state property, the payment of taxes. These relationships are not 
equal, one party possessing the power to have an impact on the other side, i.e., 
relationship is built on the principles of subordination. Relationships can also be 
built on the basis of equality and autonomy. A contract is often a basis for them.
Civil legal relations, for example, are built so.
The separation of private and public relations, the admissible and binding, 
imperative and dispositive is of great importance. This distinction is most clearly