商人阶层崛起对法治秩序的影响

现代西方法治秩序的形成在相当大的程度上是由于商人阶层的促动,同时法治秩序也为商人阶层提供了制度保障,二者相辅相成。商人阶层经过了漫长的历史孕育之后而爆发,努力地寻求政治上的认同,在制度设计上,导致了包括商事法在内的一系列形式理性法诞生,并成为西方的主导社会规范。其产生之初,仅出于维护商人的利益而予以颁行,但其中的法治精神辐射到了全社会,无意中使法治秩序得以成就。

The Influence of Businessman Stratum''s Rising to the Order Ruleed by Laws

The formation of modern western rule of law,to a very large extent,is due to the motivation of the merchant class.Meanwhile,the rule of law in the merchant class also provides a system security,the two are mutually complementary.The businessmen class breaks out after a long history of breeding and strives for a political recognition,which results in the birth of a series of rational law including commercial law,and becomes the western dominant social norms.At the beginning,these laws were enacted only for s...