REFERENDUM AS A FORM OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY

The article states that a referendum is an election, a popular discussion and a poll, is the right of real sovereign and supreme will of the people, but in its content and form of implementation. Scientific approaches to the researched problem are analyzed. In the course of the study it is substantiated that the referendum will be an effective too for exercising the right of peoples sovereignty only if the state is dominated by a democratic society, method of legal regulation, realization tool, peoples sovereignty, democratic spirit, that is the subject and method of legal regulation of the referendum differs significantly from other forms of democracy.