System of economic rights and freedoms of human and citizen: problems of classification and content
Questions concerning the legal nature of the basic economic rights, their place in the system of human and civil rights and freedoms, the relationship with social and personal rights, are still debatable in the modern theory of human rights. The purpose: to study the essence and content of the basic economic rights and freedoms of man and citizen, the peculiarities of their constitutional and legal regulation in the Russian Federation and foreign countries. Methodological basis: formal legal, system-structural, comparative-legal methods of research; analysis of various approaches to the content of basic economic rights and freedoms. Results: the author gives the definition of the essence of economic rights and freedoms, presents their difference from the group of social rights, shows their natural and positive character. Conclusions: social and economic rights have different substantive content; rights: private property, free occupation by entrepreneurial activity, freedom of work and choice of occupation, can relate to both personal and economic rights.