马西略政治思想述评

A Commentary on Marsiglio's Political Thought

马西略是西方中世纪晚期的最重要的思想家之一,其思想对近代主权国家的产生和宪政主义的发展都有着直接而积极的影响。他站在世俗国家的立场上,为世俗君主的权威进行了有力的辩护,认为人民是一切权力的直接源泉,宗教大会应该是基督教生活领域中的最高权力机构,法律应该体现人民大众的意志。

Marsiglio of Padua is one of the most important political thinkers in the mediaeval West,with a great influence upon the sovereignty of the state and the constitutionalism in the modern time. From the standpoint of the secular state, he defended the sovereignty of the ruler. His ideas that all powers have their sources in the people,that the Council should be the super authority in the Christian life,and that law should be the expression of the people＇s will are of special importance in development of the Western constitutionalism in the later middle time.