The core and supreme achievement of Jiang Ze min's thoughts of ruling by law is to govern the country by law and build up socialist law governing country.
To enhance comparative study between them, not only benefit to further research Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, but also benefit to insist on and develop Mao Zedong's and Deng Xiaoping's ideology of legal system, in the meantime, it has important guiding significance in administering country according to law, constructing a socialist country ruled by law.
The essence of running a country by law lies in making use of the good law to control and restrain the national public power, prevent it from expanding and abusing at will so as to ensure the citizen's right better, promote people's overall development and harmonious progress of the society.
Abstract This paper tries to make some theoretical explorations into the appeal made recently by the Party Central Committee to "administer the country according to law and build a legalized socialist country". It first analyses the concepts of legality, rule by law and rule by men and the different interpretations in history of the rule by law and the rule by men. It then looks into the basic conditions and fundamental principles for administering the country according to law and elaborates on its advantag...
There are seven main ideas of governing the country by law, they are:ruler must follow law; impersonalization of the supreme power; promotion of the form rationalization; re-defining the legal nature; the legitimate fundation of public power; the balance of public rights and personal rights; attatching importance on rights. If these principles are widely identified, the idea of governing the country by law will get the strong ideological support.
A Summarize to the Symposium of theory holding in Beijing in April 1997. There are four reports on a special topic about the relation between rule by law and Spiritual civilization construction, the relation between rule by law and rule by education, Law and moral,System Civilization building, branch statute and Spiritual Civilization Construction, etc.