History Of Politics And Law Committee System

The Chinese Communist Party's leadership for the politics and law is primarily achieved through the organization of groups within all levels of political-legal committees or departments. As the special function departments of Chinese Communist Party for political-legal leadership, they are performing concrete functions and tasks. However, the "offside" and "absence" of functions co-exist, such as their undue interferences to the judiciary results in unfair of justice, which have triggered numbers of negative social effects. However, the academic study of Political-Legal Committee is not hot, only a small number of evaluation of the negative majority. One is the moderate critic and advocates improving the system. The other one is in favor of abolishing it. Any system will never be absolutely good or bad. If the political-legal committee system itself has such big disadvantages, why the Chinese Communist Party set it up and maintains it? What is the original form of this system? What has its evolution undergone during the long history? Why it changed? What are the changes of its status, institution settings, functions, work mechanism, etc.? What is the important work carried out among various periods? The clarifying about these issues will be no doubt helpful for us to understand the political-legal committee system correctly. In order to supply a proper basis for further research, this paper attempts to comb systematically and comprehensively through the development history of the political-legal committee system.For ease of exposition, this article will divide the history of the Political-legal Committee into "three times", namely: Before liberation, before and after the Cultural Revolution, and limit the scope of the study at the central committee level. This paper is intended to regard "three times" as the main line, to study the concrete form of the status of the system, institution settings, functions, work mechanism, the important work and the reasons for the establishment , then acquire the own reflection and the prospects for the reform of the Political-legal Committee.This paper is intended to be divided into four parts, plus introduction and conclusion. Introduction has reviewed the academic research of the Political-legal Committee system and its reform in recent years, pointing out the significance of previous studies on this issue and shortcomings presented. And raise the aim of this paper's research, the problem to be solved, and then give some introduction to the research methods. The first part is about the evolution before liberation, to inspect the Political-Legal committee's development at that time. The second part is about the evolution before the Cultural Revolution, to inspect the political-legal committee,the Central Legal Committee and the Central Political-Legal group meticulously and deeply . The third part is about the evolution after the Cultural Revolution, to summarize the status,functions,institution settings,working mechanism and important activities of the Central Political-Legal Group (second phase), the Central Political-Legal Commission, the Central Leading Group for Politics and Law, the Central Political-Legal Commission (second phase) . The fourth part is about the meditation and prospect to the history of Politic-Legal Committee system, to discuss the inspiration inspected through history, along with the problems existing right now, giving an outlook to acceleration of the building of a socialist country ruled by law and the reform of the Politic-Legal Committee system under the thought about holding stability. Finally a conclusion.