Justice in the Structure of Government in Light of Nahj al-Balagha Letters

Regarding the structure of government and the interconnection of its components, we can speak of justice on two levels. First, the "structural justice" level together with the question, "what normative principles guarantee the realization of "justice"-as 'placing everything where they belong to in the structural arrangement of the components of government?" And second, the "poststructural justice" level together with the question, "what principles guarantee the 'justice' with the same definition, after the formation of the structure of government?" This study asks the mentioned questions upon Nahj al-Balagha's letters. Besides, it infers the answers to those questions by discovering distinctive principles at the two levels of "justice in the structure of government" and "justice after the formation of the structure of government" using the descriptiveanalytical method and searching in the library resources. The letters of Nahj al-Balagha present norms for the two fields of "employee recruitment" and "post-recruitment'; as they offer standards for the two areas of "relation with people" and "relation with the enemy" regarding post-structural justice. Despite the simplicity of the government structure in Imam Ali's era, this study believes that meeting the mentioned principles leads complex structure of the modern governments and results of their activities to notable levels of "justice in the structure of government