Civil Identity in the Constitutions of Mashrooteh and the Islamic Republic of Iran

Volume 7, Issue 26
Summer 2006
Pages 27-54

Document Type : Original Article

Author

MA in Political Sciences-researcher

Abstract
The current article determines the criteria as well as the chief characteristics of "civil identity" and attempts to study the Iranian statute by considering these criteria. Accordingly, civil identity is taken to be a feature that reidentifies people and groups within societal and symmetrical relations inside civil society. Hence, the characteristics of civil identity can be summed up in the five doctrines of being public, profitable, organizational, institutional, intentional and nongovernmental. In order to compare the Iranian constitutional law with the doctrines cited above, the author will then try to recognize three major types of individual, group and political rights and will study them within the constitutional laws of Mashrooteh and Islamic Republic of Iran.

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