论西方近现代宪法政治的中世纪起源

On the Medieval Origin of Western Modern & Contemporary Constitutional Politics

宪法政治是近现代西方民主政治的重要组成部分。英国近代宪法被认为是世界宪法之母,而英国近代宪法是从中世纪的法律至上原则和制约王权的特殊法规基础之上发展而来的。由此,我们看到西方近现代宪法政治实是从西欧中世纪专制政治的母体中发展而来,而不是来源于古希腊和罗马的民主政治。

Constitutional politics is an important part of the modem and contemporary democratic politics. The English modem constitution has been considered mother of world constitution, which evolves from the medieval principles that rules of law were the priority to everything and that the power of monarch was to be limited. Hence, this thesis holds the view that the western contemporary constitution doesn＇t develop fro the ancient Greek and Roman democratic politics but from the western European medieval autocracy.