Abstract:

The most essential aspect of the constitution is to protect citizens' basic rights. To ensure citizens' basic rights, there is just a control of the state power and a so-called limited power government. Historically, the constitution was produced from the need of guaranteeing citizens' basic rights. Its development and maturity signifies an improvement of the guarantee of citizens' basic rights, and the qualitative and quantitative unity of the guarantee is a mark of the constitutional developmental level. Logically, the guarantee of citizens' basic rights is also a fundamental measure of all constitutional values including liberty, efficiency and order. When governing the state in accordance with the constitution and further promoting China's socialist rule by law, we should take the guarantee of citizens' basic rights as an essential starting point.

Key words: citizen's basic right, limited power, constitutional guarantee