Rousseau's Legislative Difficulty and Its Chinese Solution
Rousseau believes that legislators are responsible for shaping the people and their political lifestyle based on the public will.However,Rousseau's introduction of the independent legislators in his political theory creates a difficulty:how to keep the people and the legislators in a line.The legislators are not the people themselves,so it is hard to make sure that the laws they make are the ones the people want or that the people themselves make the laws.Rousseau cannot solve this difficulty.China's legislative practice has solved this dilemma preliminarily,ensuring that the people become true legislators and that the laws enacted by the people comply with the public will.
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