最低生活保障权的性质及其保障模式

西方国家主要通过两种方式来保障公民的最低生活保障权（生存权）：一是将其规定为宪法权利，同时辅之以具体立法；二是虽然不探讨其宪法权利的属性，但通过宪法程序和具体立法来给予双重保障。我国不但在宪法中肯定该权利，而且通过立法赋予了公民法律上的请求权。在国际法规范中，对该权利的倡导主要是通过不具有强行性的规范来指引和监督。

The Right to Exist and Its Protection Models

The western countries mainly have two kinds of method to protect citizen's right to exist: One is to recognize it as the constitutional right, and through the development of law to achieve its operability in the meantime. Another method is that protecting citizen's right to exist by constitutional procedure and lawmaking. Our country brings it into the constitution, and gives people the right of claim by law. In the international law, the norms mainly are policy norms which have no enforcement power.