博丹宪政思想刍议

A Preliminary Study of J. Bodin’s Constitutional Thoughts

处在16世纪历史拐点的法国政治思想家让.博丹,在阐述其经典理论主权论并宣扬王权君主制的国家形式和政制的同时,承袭自然法理论,对绝对主权和王权君主制作了具有相对意义的限制。这种体现着威权信仰要求,以私有财产权为基点,萌发制衡、契约和维护个体权利的理念,无疑闪烁着宪政思想的光芒。

While constructingt his classical theory of state sovereignty and monarchy, Jean Bodin,a French political thinker at the end of the 16th century, inherited the theory of natural law that limited absolute state sovereignty and monarchy in a relative sense. His thoughts, spreading the constitutionalist seeds, reflected the requirement of authoritarian faith and brought the idea of power balance, the idea of contract and the idea of individual rights that emphasized protecting private property as its base.