Abstract：In the process of social transformation in modern China, democratic practice has gone through three different stages: the movement of constitutional political improvement at the end of Qing Dynasty, the evolution of military and political division between North and South in the early Republic of China, the military rule and political tutelage by the Kuomintang. The ruling authorities, ideological elites and political power figures have actively led the rule of law operation in promoting democratic practice, putting forward the following proposals: constitutional monarchy, rebuilding new citizens, constitution-making by-person, the Three People’s Principles and Democratic Governance. The five approaches try to find a way of modern democratic politics based on the implementation of constitutionalism, but they all end in failure. Although the failure of these democratic practices was related to the political, economic and cultural development stage of Chinese society at that time, as well as the intertwined situation of civil strife and foreign invasion, the fundamental reason from the perspective of the rule of law was that in the construction of the national political system, it violated the basic law of democratic political development, departed from the constitutional choice of national conditions and public opinion, and resulted in the improper use of constitutional functions. This shows that the rule of law is the stabilizer of democratic operation and development. It is the guarantee of stable and healthy operation of democracy to give full play to the function of the legal system of good law and good governance centered on the Constitution.
廖万春, 马作武. 法治视域中的中国近代民主实践：阶段、进路与归因[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2019, 36(3): 97-106.
LIAO Wan-chun, MA Zuo-wu. The Practice of Democracy in Modern China from the Perspective of Rule of Law:Stage,Approach and Attribution. , 2019, 36(3): 97-106.
2019, Vol. 36 
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