明初重刑辨析

虽然明朝初期法律状况的研究在我国已经有了很长的历史,但还是有些问题颇有争议,基于对这些问题的认识.对<洪武三十年律>与<明大诰>进行了研究,认为从刑法体系而言,<大明律>并不是如有些观点所认为的那样较唐律"轻其轻罪,重其重罪";另外,明初重典治吏失败的原因,并不是由于其无视正常法制或像沈家本所说威竭而不振.而是因为"明刑弼教"的口号看起来重典治吏,实际上是君权的膨胀,带来的是自上而下的权力结构的扩张和恶化.导致权力的滥用,从而将本来就制定的不科学的重典引向恶化,导致了重刑改革的失败.

Analysis of Harshness of Laws of the Early Ming Dynasty

Though there has been a long history in China of the research on the legal situation of the early Ming Dynasty,some questions remain to be answered.This essay explains that Da Ming Law didn't set lighter punishments on light crimes or set harsher punishments on felonies compared with the Tang Dynasty's law.And the failure of the early Ming Dynasty is the result of Zhu Yuanzhang's legal idea,ruling by virtue.It seems that the law aims at the corruption,but it makes the emperor's power rise to the climax,whic...