法院政治功能的学理疏释

现代的法院制度与古代的相比,其区别主要不在于法院纯司法功能的变化,而在于司法与政治关系发生了实质性的嬗变。法院作为国家政治权力架构中的重要一环、法治得以实现的基本机关、民主制度的维持者与裁决者以及人民的法院,就必然要与政治发生关系,具有相应的政治功能,从而在权力分立的政治架构中,通过个案的审理与相关政治行为的判定,发挥着制约其他国家权力,规范权力运行秩序并维护宪政制度的功效。

On the Political Functions of Courts

The main differences between present courts and ancient courts are not the pure judicatory functional changes of courts, but the material changes of the relationship between jurisdiction and politics. As an important part of a state political power structure, the basic organ to realize the rule of law, the sustainer and arbiter of democracy system and the peoples' courts, the present courts is inevitable to have relationship with politics, have political functions and play the roles of limiting other powers of government, regulating the exercise order of powers, maintaining the system of constitutionalism through inquiring the specific cases and making judgments on related political actions.