Review On Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary Constitutionalism Thought

Either "Dr. Sun Yat-sen" or "Constitutionalism”, has become the hot topic in thefield of Chinese thought. Especially the former, it is a popular branch of internationalacademia. In the process of revolution and construction, Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a pioneerof Chinese democratic revolution and modern democratic legal construction. He made atheoretical and institutional innovation, in order to advance the development of Chinaand build an independent, democratic and prosperous society in the end.The essence of Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s thought is “governing the country according tolaw, and revitalizing China”. The analysis of his constitutional thought of ideologicalorigins and history has great significance in guiding us to construct a society ofdemocracy and legal system and a society of harmonious. In the meantime, it helps usinterpret the internal logic of constitutional politics development in modern China.There are a lot of important points for us to summarize and learn from. The articleis divided into three parts. The first part has presented the formation process ofconstitutional thought, summarizing the historical background of its emergence and itsdifferent development stages. The second part analyzes the main ideas of hisconstitutional thought in detail. Three Principles of the People is the fundamentalguiding principle of the democratic revolution. As a political foundation of the firstcooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, it includes theNationalism, the Civil Rights and the People’s Livelihood. In the practice of revolution,Dr. Sun Yat-sen explored the five-power constitution. This was a great attempt for theoppressed nations to look for a new road to development. He creatively put forward thetheory of "five-power constitution", which was the scientific revolution theory inmodern history. Overcoming the existing disadvantages in the western countries, andabsorbing the essence of Chinese traditional culture, it became the core of hisconstitutionalism thought. The separation of rights and duties was Dr. Sun Yat-sen’sconclusion of the relationship between the country and the citizens, including people’spower to manage the government and government’s own management power. This ensured the realization of civil rights of the people. During the three period ofdevelopment of military rule, political tutelage and constitutional government, thetheories of revolutionary processes ensured the victory of democratic revolution at last.The third chapter, combining related historical materials and applying the Marxistmethod of dialectical materialism, expounded the significances of analyzing hisconstitutional thought in China’s social development.In his whole life, Dr. Sun Yat-sen pursued revolution and democracy, and hisslogan was “to build China into a modern country”. In the one hundred years of Chineseconstitutionalism history, his career did not reach the desired goal. But somecommunists inherited his will, and fought for it with all people loyal to Dr. SunYat-sen’s career, and eventually won the victory of New Democracy Revolution, andestablished the People’s Republic of China, and accomplished the historical task ofnational independence and the liberation of the people, and led to a new era. Dr. SunYat-sen’s constitutionalism thought, not only had great influence in those days, but alsoare helpful for present. They are valuable legacy of history in modern China, which isworth our continuous study and development.