Constitutionalization of the Concept of a Decent Standard of Living

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The concept of a decent life and its sufficient level largely determines the constitutional content of social rights and is a concept that significantly influences the development of modern constitutionalism throughout the world. The obligations of States to ensure a decent standard of living consist in ensuring that workers receive a fair income not below the established limit, and in the absence of such, the opportunity to use State social assistance in an appropriate amount. In constitutional acts of different countries, such obligations can be expressed in the form of program provisions declaring the goals and principles of the state’s social activities to provide its citizens with the opportunity for a decent existence, and obligations guaranteeing the use of social rights, at least to the extent corresponding to the established (minimum) level of well-being, the normative parameters of which are used as a criterion for their judicial review.