试论请愿权的性质及立法

On the Nature and the Legislation of the Right to Petition

请愿权是古已有之的基本公民权利。自古至今的许多宪法性文件大多都有请愿权的规定,其性质属于请求权。由于我国现行宪法中缺乏请愿权的明确规定,导致这种重要的基本公民权利不能得到应有的法律保障。而在社会利益越来越多元化多样化的今天,这种缺陷日益凸显,问题日益突出。在宪法不能及时完善的情况下,有必要从保障请愿权的角度,挖掘和解释现行宪法的相关规定,以保障和化解请愿权的现实诉求与制度缺失的问题。

The right to petition has been the basic civil right since time immemorial.The stipulations of the right to petition,which belongs to claim right in nature,could be found in most of the constitutional documents.The constitution do not clearly stipulate the Right to Petition,which leads to the deficieny of this important basic civil right.With the development of social diversity,this defeciecy is increasingly becoming evident and prominent.This paper insists that it be necessary to interpret the relevant regulations of the constitution to protect the right to petition before the current constitution has been amended.