西方权力制约论的思想渊源和制度架构

权力制约是西方政治思想史上的一个重要论题。这个论题萌芽于古希腊,其经典性的解答完成于近代资产阶级革命时期,直到今天依然有许多政治思想家围绕它展开思考和论辩。在现代政治形态的孕育和发展过程中,西方政治思想家就权力制约问题所达成的某种共识,不仅表现为一系列相互关联的理论预设,而且在很大程度上影响并融入了西方政治的制度架构。对这个问题进行分析,可以为我们提供一些有益的启示。

Ideological Origins and Institutional Framework of Restraint of Power Theories

An important topic of Western political ideology, restraint of power, burgeoned in ancient Greece, and its classic interpretations were completed in the modern bourgeois revolutions. Today, many political thinkers continue to reflect and debate upon the issue. The a-greement reached by Western political thinkers concerning restraint of power in the evolution of modern political pattern not only manifests itself in the series of interrelated theoretical presumptions but in large part affects and is incorporated into the Western political framework. To some extent, an analysis of the issue is revealing and instructive.