为什么宪政对人权和财产权的保障是现代经济制度的基础——兼论罗马法以来公民社会法权形态与中国皇权社会"蚁民"法权形态的迥异

Why the Constitutional Protection of Human Rights and Property Rights is the Foundation of Modern Economic System?

当前流行的一种经济史观认为,在皇权中国这一迥异于宪政及其产权形态的制度框架之内,近现代性质的经济方式仍然可以建立起来,本文对此提出质疑。作者认为,使国民人身和财产权利从中世纪状态中解脱出来,无疑是现代社会经济制度得以建立的首要条件,宪政法理这种从确立国民私有财产权地位进而通向公民社会公法体系的逻辑路径,与中国皇权政体的法理逻辑形成了鲜明对照。

One of the current views of economic history holds that within the framework of the royal power of China, which is categorically different from constitutional power and its mode of property right, an economic form of modern nature can still be established. This view is severely questioned in this paper. The author maintains that one of the prerequisites for the establishment of modern social and economic system is the liberation of human rights and property rights from the shackle of the Middle Ages. Constitutionlism is the only logical path towards ensuring private ownership and building up the public law system of civic society. It is antithetical to the law and logic of the royal power system of China.