Balance between the rights and duties of the citizen within the concept of citizenship

Abstract

The concept of citizenship is closely related to rights and freedoms and how to
exercise them and the citizen’s knowledge of his responsibilities and duties. The
success and stability of citizenship requires achieving a balance between the
need to create conditions to enable each individual to enjoy his rights, and the
individual’s duties towards other individuals and towards the group to which he
belongs through his responsibility of seeking to promote and take into account
the rights recognized in the legislative system of the state. When citizens
exercise their rights and freedoms, the rights and freedoms of others must be
taken into account. Rights and freedoms are not absolute, but rather, controls
must be established that regulate the exercise of the right, to prevent the
emergence of a conflict between opposite rights that may lead to social chaos.
This study deals with the regulation of the relationship between the citizen and
the state through the rights, duties and responsibilities associated with each of
them in the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq for the year 2005.