The Equality Of Civil Rights And Its Protection By Law In China

The equality rights is one of the fundamental civil rights granted by the constitution should be enjoyed by every person, which is the basic requirement that civil can achieve other fundamental civil rights, as well as the basic principle of the socialist rule of law. The protection of the equality of civil rights is the basic requirement of the constitution and the socialist rule of law.The core meaning of"equality of civil rights"means every citizen can equally enjoy all civil rights and should equally fulfill their obligations. No one should be allowed to have legal privilege. The equality of rights as the unification of absolute equality and relative equality has become an important characteristics of modern legislation. It includes the equality of substantial rights and that of procedural rights, and it also includes the equality of content, of the application of law, of implementation of law, and of legislation. The integrity and individuality of the equality of rights determines that it has a double-sided feature of rights and principle.The rights equality theories have experienced three periods of development, including modern Western theories, contemporary theories and Marxist. The theories on the nature of socialism in three stages claim that the core demands of socialism is establishing equal social relations and pursuing perfect ideal of human equality. The equality of rights in its course of development experience the transformation from equal application to legislative equality, from economic equality to political equality, from formal equality to substantial equality. After the development in the past more than half a century, China has achieved much in the fields of equal rights. The realization and development of the rights equality has been put under legality.In respect to the rights equality of citizens in China, there are many disadvantages. The realization and protection of the rights equality is still far from satisfaction. The bottlenecks lies in the discrimination against rural residents, gender discrimination, the differences in the political rights, the expansion of the gap in economic income and opportunities to receive education, and so on. The Protection of the rights for its citizen is the responsibility of modern government. The important status of the rights equality determines that the protection of equality right is the necessary choice of the nation in its rule of law construction. The equality rights of the citizens in our country can be protected by Constitution, executive and judicial authority. Therefore, it is necessary to improve Constitution, try to improve the quality the law enforcement and judicial protection in order to protect the equal rights of citizens.