论有限政府的现实诉求

On the Reality Demand for Limited Government

有限政府理论是近代西方政治思想的重要内容,作为政制运作与宪政实践的指导原则,其产生与古典自由主义密切关联。随着古典自由主义向新自由主义、新古典自由主义变迁,有限政府理论涉及政府功能、职能和规模方面的内容逐渐被适度政府理论所吸收,权力分立与权力制约的传统内涵成为有限政府理论在宪政层面的现实诉求。

The theory of the limited government is an important aspect of the modern western political thoughts. As the guiding principles of the political operation and the constitutional practice, its origin coincides with the classical liberalism. With the historical change of the classical liberalism to neo - liberalism and the new classical liberalism, the aspects of the government＇ s function, responsibility and the scale were gradually absorbed into the theory of moderate government which was an important component of the theory of the limited government. An effective system of the checks and the balances, which is the traditional connotation of the theory of the limited government, has become its reality demand in the constitutional visual field