democracy in the atitude and conduct of imam ali

analysing two concepts of people's role and the duties of feligious democratic governmant from imam ali's perspective is the aim of this article . in the introductory part, the author focuses on people's role in a state from imam ali's point of view while he is discussing political legitimacy.in this context, he has dealt with issues such as; 1)people`s role in establishing religious state; 2)people`s role in on statemen in a religious state; 3)people`s role in consulting leaders in a religious state; 4)people`s right in questioning state and statemen; and 5) people`s duty in opposing a state when it does not observes revealed laws. in second part of the article, responsibilities of a democratic state, the author trys to describe imam ali's view points of those issues.