普通公民应享有对法律文件解释的启动权

Common Citizens Should Be Given the Starting Right for the Interpretation of Legal Documents

法律条文的抽象性、原则性,必然要求在法律实施过程中,对其具体含义进行解释。我国目前关注较多的是法律的解释方法问题,而很少关注法律解释的启动问题。法律文件解释的启动权是公民的一项宪法性权利,赋予公民此项权利有利于扩大公民民主参与性,有利于为公民权利提供另一种新的救济手段,也有利于法律的进一步完善。但现行法律中缺乏对公民该权利的具体规定,应在《立法法》及相关法律中明确赋予公民法律文件解释的启动权,并建立健全公民启动法律文件解释的程序规则。

It is necessary to interpret the laws in the process of their implementation because of their characteristics of abstraction and principle. Currently, we pay more attention to the methods of legal interpretation than to the starting right of legal interpretation. The starting right of the legal interpretation is a constitutionalright of the citizens. Endowing the citizens with this right could encourage their democratic participation. It also provides a new kind of remedy procedure for the citizens and is advantageous to further legal perfection. But there is no concrete provision about the right in the current laws. It is necessary to give the citizens starting fight for the interpretation of legal documents definitely in Legislation Law and other relevant laws, and to build up the procedure rule that enables the citizens to use the right.