Civic Duties and Strengthening of Rights and Liberties to Citizenship Under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2560 (2017)

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to study and propose certain legal mechanisms to strengthen citizenship for performing civic duties under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2560 (2017), and to study and propose other related tools and measures for a balance between the performance of civic duties and the exercise of rights and liberties under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2560 (2017). This study was conducted by the qualitative approach based on the documentary research. This study were described about Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2560 (2017) and civic duties based on 6 citizenship frameworks, forms of formulating the fundamental citizenship linked to rights and liberties in Thailand and other countries, models of performing civic duties making the claim for rights and liberties meaningful and mechanisms provoking civic duties and encouraging the exercise of rights and liberties under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2560 (A.D. 2017). In this regard, the researcher has suggested as a policy measure and mechanisms for many factors and some legal measures and mechanisms should be added to promote and support the performance of civic duties in claiming for rights and liberties which are 1) Section 45 of the Organic Act on Procedures of the Constitutional Court B.E. 2561 (A.D. 2018) should be amended 2)the State should have a role in supporting the civil politics by supporting the establishment of an organization with a duty of publicizing, educating, or arousing awareness of people regarding their rights, liberties, duties and specific law should be enacted to support the establishment of this political organization 3)the existing legal measures and mechanisms used to examine the political parties’ spending of budget as supported by the State should be revised and 4) the State should promote the legal measures and mechanisms which arouse the general people to recognize the importance of brainstorming and presenting the policies in the public forum independently, either at the local or national level.