法制现代化视野中的清末宪政

The Research on Constitutionalism of the Late Qing Dynasty from the Legal Modernization Angle

清末“预备”立宪是清政府在特定的历史背景下采取的一次改革活动,这也是中国历史上罕见的经统治者认可的和平改革。从法制现代化的角度来看,这次宪政改革在一定程度上贯彻了分权、民权和法治原则,初步实现了从皇权至上到法律至上,由义务本位到权利本位,由人治到法治的历史性价值转型,是一个从传统的人治社会向现代型的法制社会的创造性转换过程;这次改革推动了中国民主政治的发展,绝非骗局说可以概括之,它本身对于中国宪政建设具有很好的参考价值。

Constitutionalism ＂prepare＂ is an innovation which was taken by Qing dynasty at the edge of legal modernization. This constitutionalism innovation to some degree carried out disperse-power principle, people-right principle and law of rule principle, and carrying out preliminarily the transformation of view of historic value from imperical power to law supremary, from duty standard to right standard and from rule of man to rule of law. It was a creative transfer process from traditional society of rule by man to modern legal society of rule by law, which improved the developmeng of Chinese democracy and politics, we can not think it was a fraud, and which have much reference value for China constitutionalism construction nowadays.