The New Democratic Constitutional Studies

The study of the new democratic constitutionalism has been one of the weak links in the research on the theories and practice of the new democracy. While an immense collection of books have been published that deal with the problem from an angle of historical theory, quite few researchers probe into it from a constitutional point of view, which we cannot but regard as a regret. In this dissertation, from the angle constitutionalism the author has done a systematic, deep-going and comprehensive research on the building of the democratic politics in the Anti-Japanese base areas and liberated areas led by the CPC as well as in the early days of New China, that is, from the war against Japan to the time before the 1954 Constitution was issued. The new democratic constitutionalism was really a great pioneering undertaking dong by the Communist party of China in the democratic political building during the new democratic revolution. The constitutionalism, basically embodied in the strengthening of the democratic political power in the Anti –Japanese base areas and liberated areas led by the CPC, has based on its rich theories and practice, got full presentation in its connotation, feature and significance, and become a new model of constitutionalism which differs not only from a capitalist constitutionalism but from a socialist one . Based on a deep-going investigation of history, this paper, by merging the theories and methods in history, politics and law and through a necessary comparative study horizontally and vertically, has mainly revealed how the new democratic constitutional ideology come into being, set forth the emergence, development and operating mechanism of the new democratic constitutionalism, and particularly analyzed its connotation and summed up its clear and sharp features. A rational thought after the historical investigation will make us impossible not to feel amazed at the CPC's great creation, a great creation of and a great contribution to the theory and practice of democratic politics in China and even in the world.