A Study on the Development of Mao Tse-dong's View of Constitution in His Late Years

After establishment of People's Republic of China,the 1954 Constitution was made under leadership of Mao Tse-dong and a new system of law was established.Mao Tse-dong's goal of establishing law system by means of revolution,which he started pursuing from his early age,had come true.On basis of this,Mao Tse-dong made great effort to further probe way of democratic constitutionalism and formed many theories before and after 1956.However,with accomplishment of socialist transformation and beginning of large-scale socialist construction,the essential spirit of people's democratic dictatorship was not well carried out in activities of state authority and the rule by man principle gradually took an important place in Mao's thought as a result of inherent deficiency in Chinese constitutionalism culture and Mao's ignorance of role of constitutionalism and rule of law.The new historical task lies before us today is to overcome shortcomings of Mao's ignorance of constitutionalism and develop quintessence of his thought in constitutional government.