Characteristics of Law and an Introduction to the "General Policies of the Lawmaking System"

Law and legislation, if not the most important issue facing modern man and government, are one of the most fundamental. In its original form, although it originates and is born through the legislature and through the deliberation and consultation of a large number of people's representatives in parliament, it is not limited to that and affects various types of human activities and the development of societies. It is clear that the domestic legal system also cannot do without deep thinking about the characteristics of law, in order to facilitate the effective and efficient functioning of human relations on the one hand, and to benefit from it in a native way and in accordance with the requirements of Iranian-Islamic society on the other hand. Correct analysis of the characteristics of law in the context of the domestic legislative system and efforts to represent and repair its shortcomings, of course, requires an examination of the "General Policies of the Lawmaking System". The results of this article, using a normative method, examining official legal documents and collecting information through library resources, show that with the exception of the three components of "Sharia principles", "General policies of the system" and "Demands of the leadership" which have a special place based on the requirements of legislation based on jurisprudence, other components overlap with the characteristics of law in the modern state. Also, among the two appreciable assumptions about the legal nature of "policies" in the hierarchy of domestic norms and with emphasis on "legal logic", the requirements of the "command-oriented system" and finally the "rule of law", it is possible and necessary to consider a place below the constitution and ordinary law and of course above government regulations for it.