The Reflection For Constitutional Culture Of China

At the crossroads of modern national peril, constitutional as an "import" Chinese has become the focus of the political arena and the core, and guide a large number of people with lofty ideals and the people waged a vigorous battle to save the country. However, the constitutional practice in the modern history of failures, without exception, and study their roots:in the economic and cultural development has not yet been put in place, the constitutional system as a tool for political reform has been hard transplanted to China's political life, this should promote democracy, the constitutional guarantee of basic human rights just as a tool for power struggle, then used a useful, useless while away, there is no set up should have the authority of the Constitution, and then lead to regime change, constitutional frequent, but no on the substance of constitutional significance. The new democratic and socialist constitutional construction has made great achievements, but its path of development is full of twists and turns. Set up a socialist country ruled by law, we are shouldering heavy tasks.For whatever purpose, in each period the elite are trying to put his idea into practice the constitutional, in order to achieve a prosperous independent country has made unremitting efforts. Their spirit are valuable, they also promoted the idea of China's legal modernization process. However, implementation of constitutional government is not a simple reform of the upper system, it fundamentally depends on the society's political, economic and cultural foundation, also depends on the society as a whole contained in a constitutional democracy, the rule of law, human rights, the basic spirit of the generally recognized. The lessons of history tell us:the need to cultivate the foundation of modern constitutional culture in order to build a constitutional construction of Chinese buildings.Chinese sigh at the lack of modern constitutional culture, we must find a Chinese cultural resources of the existing constitutional and Western civilization, the gap between constitutional and narrow the gap in China, on the basis of local culture to achieve the integration of Chinese and Western civilizations. This requires, first of all developed market economies and stable democratic political culture for the constitutional development of a favorable external environment, and secondly, we have to face up to the traditional culture of contemporary constitutional impact of the building, re-interpretation of traditional culture and to give the connotation of its time; to the West constitutional culture appropriate to renounce, and dare to innovate, to form a socialist characteristics constitutional culture in contemporary China. In addition, the need to cultivate citizen's constitutional consciousness, so that became the constitutional aspirations of the whole nation as a whole and awareness campaign at the Government under the leadership of the masses of the people as the main body to promote the building of Chinese constitutional process.