政治与社会思想比较视野中的近代法国立国之路

ThePath of the Establishment ofa Stable Political System in the NineteenthhCentury France in the Comparative Perspective of Political and Social Thought

英国在光荣革命后建立了旧世界最值得称道的政治制度,美国独立后在新大陆实践的民主则为欧洲人预示了一个美丽新世界,反观法国整个19世纪却一直在革命与复辟间动荡不已。大革命后法国自由派思想家力图效仿英美,在法国建立稳定有效的宪政体制。近代法国在曲折的立国之路中所积累的经验与教训,对其他后发民族国家的政治转型具有重大的启示意义。

After the Glorious Revolution,Britain established the most praiseworthy political system in Europe,and the American revolution predicted a beautiful new world for the Europeans.However the nineteenth century French history witnessedtheceaseless conflicts between the revolution and the reaction.What the French liberal political thinkers sought in France was to set up a stable political system based on the successful Anglo-Saxons model.Other nations could learn some lessons from French tortuous process of establishing a modern representative regime.