Amendments to the Legislative Law to Improve People’s Initiative

On March 8, 2015, at a time when the people across the country celebrated the “Women's Day”, the Third Plenary Session of the 12th National ***** held its second plenary meeting. The meeting heard Li Jianguo, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Republic of China. The "Law of the People's Republic of China on the amendment of the Legislative Act", "Law of the Legislative" this "tall up" law, spread all over the country, entered the homes of ordinary people.

Then, if the draft amendment to the "Law of Legislation" is passed, what impact will it have on the lives of our people? The author believes that the amendment to the legislative law will have a profound impact on the quality of life of the people and will greatly enhance the sense of security of the people. At the same time, it will also effectively increase the people’s enthusiasm for rights protection.

The amendments to the "Law of Legislation" will profoundly affect the quality of life of the people: The law has regulated our people's food, drink, transport, food and drink law, the "Property Law", the "Road Traffic Safety Law," etc. The formulation of these laws must be formulated in accordance with the procedures stipulated in the "Law of Legislation", otherwise its effectiveness will be questioned. The "Law of Legislation" is such a law that administers other laws. Whether or not it is formulated properly will affect whether other laws are formulated scientifically. Good law and good governance will affect people's quality of life.

For example, if food safety issues do not rise to the legal level, but only local regulations and even departmental regulations, the deterrence will be greatly reduced, then our people are likely to be deeply affected by melamine, waste oil, Sudan red, etc. Poisoning; For example, if drunken driving is not punished, then we may be harmed by drunk driving for a long time, and risking our lives when crossing the road. For this reason, the draft amendment to the "Law of Legislation" clearly requires that "the quality of legislation should be improved" and that "the leading role of legislation should be promoted." The ultimate significance lies in improving the quality of life of the people.

The amendment to the "Law of Legislation" will greatly enhance the sense of security of the people: "There is food in the hands and there is no panic in the heart." When the people have "grains," they inevitably need to be taxed. Franklin once said that "in this world, In the past, only death and taxes are inescapable." Taxes are the source of state revenue, but taxation cannot be “pretentious.” "Rule by law" must begin with "tax statutory", that is, the government collects taxes, who receives, how much it receives, and how it should be collected. It must pass ** legislation, and it must not arbitrarily pass regulations or even issue red-headed documents. Taxes. Only the "legal statutory tax," the people "have a grain" will not be uneasy, and when they don't need to worry about the damage to their wallets.

The consequences of “willfulness” taxation can only aggravate public unease, and some entrepreneurs have even had to settle or relocate their businesses abroad because they cannot tolerate tax revenue “willfulness” to arbitrary charges. To this end, the amendment to the "Law of Legislation" proposed that the principle of "legal statutory taxation," that is, the matters concerning the basic system of taxation, suspension, and collection of tax revenue, must be made in a law-making manner, and the right should not be subject to "willfulness." Taxes give people a sense of security.

The amendment to the "Law of Legislation" will effectively increase public activism: In recent years, local governments have adopted "lazy government" measures. To ease traffic, the scientific reasons for traffic congestion have not been studied, and simple and crude "limitation" has been adopted; To explore the root causes of soaring house prices, simple and crude "restricted purchases"; in order to protect the so-called domestic film and television, do not go deeper domestic film and television production, make up the reality, simple and crude "outside", and so on. These simple and crude "restricted" administrative measures may achieve certain results in a short period of time. However, these lazy-government measures are neither fair nor legal, and are acts that derogate the people's legitimate rights and interests for no reason.

For example, private cars purchased by the public with legitimate income, private cars meet safety, environmental protection, and other requirements, they also pay tax insurance according to various requirements, and they have their own licenses, but local governments do not allow them to go. It is a typical violation of the provisions of the “Property Law” that citizens have the right to possess, use, dispose, and benefit their own legal property, which is a typical behavior that detracts from the rights of the people.

For this reason, the draft amendment to the "Law of Legislation" stipulates that when local governments formulate corresponding regulations, if there are no laws, administrative regulations, and local regulations as the basis, they must not derogate from the rights of citizens, legal persons and other organizations or increase their obligations. The draft amendment to the "Law of Legislation" further limits the power of local governments. Once passed, the people will be able to actively take legal weapons and actively defend their rights through administrative lawsuits.

In short, the "Law of Legislation" is a law governing law. It is a small constitution of China. It is amended along with the economic development and the deepening of reforms. It is in line with the development of the rule of law and civilization in the world. Take the United States as an example, the highly developed culture of the rule of law in the United States, With its constant amendments to the law, especially the constitution, it has a close connection. We are convinced that with the continuous improvement of the "Law of Legislation," China's "legal dream" of good governance and good governance will be realized, and China's rule of law civilization will be more developed, and the people will therefore enjoy the development benefits brought about by the rule of law.