THE CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS OF THE MECHANISM OF PROTECTION THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN Kostenko Nathalie Ivanovna, PhD at law. <...> Place of employment: State University-educational and scientific-industrial complex, Orel. <...> E-mail: kostenko54@inbox.ru Annotation: The Article is devoted to the study of constitutional guarantees of human rights in the modern democratic conditions, defining the universe established by the Constitution of the procedural rights that serve as a means of protection of fundamental substantive rights and freedoms, and also approved the Constitution of the human rights institutions together with the basic principles of their activity, and, finally, contained in the Constitution of the special rules governing the limits and conditions of possible restrictions of rights and freedoms Keywords: constitutional rights and freedoms of man and citizen, the development of the constitutional foundations of the state, constitutional and legal means of protection of rights and freedoms. <...>