Research On Zhang Youyu's Democratic Ideology Of The Early Period

Zhang Youyu was a famous expert in information, law and politics in our country, he was an important expert in law, as deputy director of the NPC Law Committee, he have made outstanding contributions in the construction of the country. At the same time, his research involves many areas, and has deep knowledge, in particular, he made a great achievements in the study of democratic ideology in the early period.Any thoughts were in specific background. In the period of Republic of China, the country and the society have many internal and external problems, people wanted change the current situation. Feudal ideology was facing severe challenges, western democratic ideas spread widely in China, the community raised an upsurge of democratic ideas. Zhang Youyu's democratic thought was produced, developed and matured in this period. Constitutionalism, rule of law, human rights, and information was the main content in his thought. Constitutional thought highlights the elemental design of National Assembly, the Constitution, and local self-government; Ideology of law was different from the traditional "rule of law", he combined the two rules:the rule of law and government by the people, which caught the essence of modern concept of rule of law; the ideals of human rights focuses on the planning of human rights system and protection of human rights, the freedom of the press is an important part of the human rights system, which took up a lot of his time, based on Marxist, he insist one the control of the press advocates should been consistent with the spirit of democracy. The three aspects of research present his basic understanding of democracy. His democratic thought was rich in content and had a complete system, which was represented the high level of democratic thought in the early period. His democratic thought made a significant impact on China, which led the research of democratic theory. But his early thought was not perfect, and there were some limitations, because of the political stance and other factors.