从近代民法的缺失看清末宪政改革的失败

在西方各国历史上,近代民法往往先于宪政而存在,促进了资产阶级的壮大、权利意识的觉醒、公共领域的形成,从而对宪政的产生和发展起到过积极的推动作用。但在传统制度和现实危机的影响下,清末时的中国既不存在近代民法,也缺乏促进近代民法发展的社会激励,这无疑是当时这场改革最终以失败收场的重要原因之一。今天再走发展宪政之路,我们应注重制定一部突出权利本位思想的民法典。

A View of the Vacancy of Civil Law of Modern Times from the Failure of Constitutional Reform at the End of the Qing Dynasty

In the history of western countries,the civil law of modem times preceded constitutionalism and played an important role in the enlargement of bourgeois,in the awakening of people's consciousness to rights,and in the establishment of constitutionalism and development.Unfortunately,the Qing Dynasty of China,under the influence of traditional systems,lacked the civil law of modem times,or even lacked the social factors to let the civil law of modem times formed,which was surely the main cause that the constit...