Abstract
Citizenship rights is an obvious issue and one must defend the rights of citizens; but at the same time, we must consider the social realities of a society. When one speaks of the rights of citizens in a society, it does not mean to abide it and this right must be respected especially by government officials. To achieve this objective, the emphasis on understanding, implementation, and observance of citizenship rights should become as a culture and the government should do its supportive measures and efforts fairly and accurately so that social anomalies that are rooted in the lack of abiding citizenship rights, do not spread in the society. Therefore, it should be said that citizens, society, and the government are the three vertices if citizenship rights triangle, as the existence of all vertices is necessary. In this article, we discuss the concepts of citizenship rights and evaluate and assess the supporting principles of the individual and society which are considered as the government’s duties. The reason for studying this issue is to find out why to support individual and society rights? Is this support a citizenship right? The aim of this study is to review citizenship rights including socio-political rights, economic rights and social welfare, judicial and cultural rights as well as supporting principles of the individual and society. To do this study, articles, and various books were studied and fundamentals of supporting the individual and society were developed and extracted. This review showed that supporting individual and community are including citizenship rights, and has been emphasized in all laws and international conventions.
Highlights
A school of thought that considers "the welfare in this world" as the goal of human life, leads all rights and duties to this path
Citizenship rights is an obvious issue and one must defend the rights of citizens; but at the same time, we must consider the social realities of a society
The emphasis on understanding, implementation, and observance of citizenship rights should become as a culture and the government should do its supportive measures and efforts fairly and accurately so that social anomalies that are rooted in the lack of abiding citizenship rights, do not spread in the society
Summary
A school of thought that considers "the welfare in this world" as the goal of human life, leads all rights and duties to this path. Some school of thought considers the unconditional freedom of citizens as necessary to meet this purpose and some other schools of thought believe in the abundant power of government and limited freedom of citizens to achieve the goal They all agree on the goal of "ensuring the welfare of mankind in the world". Fans of socialism believe that people are devoted to it, the authenticity, dignity, and power of the society and the public interests are precedences over individual interests and the law should primarily fulfill this aim; because, the suffering of people is worthless compared to the pride of the society (Mesbah Yazdi, 1999: 45) Islamic viewpoint in this regard becomes clear according to the Holy Quran and the traditions and lifestyle of religious leaders. We discuss the supporting of individual and society as one of the proven principles of citizenship rights and study its dimensions
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