论清末民初宪政中民族观的变化

在清末民初的宪政活动中,统治阶级的民族观发生了很大变化:从古代统治阶级对少数民族不平等的统治策略发展到提倡消除民族之间的界线,在宪法中开始体现民族平等思想,后又发展到“五族共和”,这是我国法律思想由古代向近现代转型的一个重要方面。

The Evolution of the Ethnic Concepts in the Constitutionalist Movement from the Late Qing to Early Republic Period

In the period of the constitutionalist movement from the late Qing to the early Republic period, the ethnic concepts of the ruling class had a great change. The traditional ethnic concepts as an unequal ethnic policy of the ruling class were developed into a policy to clear up the boundary lines between the different nationalities. And the thought of the ethnic equality was represented in the constitution. Then the concept was developed into the thought of the "five nationalities (the Manchu, the Han, the Mongolian, the Hui and the Tibetan) unity for a republic." The process is an important aspect of the transformation from Chinese traditional law thought to the modern one.