中国传统社会基层治理的法律机制与经验

The Legal Mechanism and Experience of Chinese Traditional Grassroots Social Governance

基层社会治理对于整体社会治理起着重要的基础和支撑作用。在中国传统社会的基层治理中,形成了一套圆融自洽、顺利运行的法律机制,其中蕴含了我国在基层社会治理方面的宝贵经验。传统儒家法与道德相混成,一直将道德教化作为重要的社会治理手段,德治与法治相结合;而基层的自治制度,不论在立法还是司法上,都为国家法律体系的有机组成部分。中国传统社会基层治理的法律机制与经验,与我们今天所提的"自治、法治、德治相结合"有着不谋而合之处,在我们面对当代基层社会治理的重大挑战时,也具有不容忽视的价值。

Grassroots social governance plays an important basic and supporting role in the overall social governance.China’s traditional grassroots social governance has formed a set of smoothly operating,harmonious and self-consistent legal system,which contains the valuable experience.The traditional Confucian law was mixed with the morality,and moral education was used as an important means of social governance,which led to the combination of rule of morality and rule of virtue.The self-governance system in the grass-roots society,whether in legislation or judicature,has formed an organic part of the national law system.The legal mechanism and experience of China’s traditional grassroots social governance coincide with the"combination of autonomy,rule of law and rule of virtue"mentioned today,and they still have values which cannot be ignored when we face the great challenges in the grassroots social governance today.