Rule by man is the symmetry of "rule by law". Also known as "sage politics". On the way and theoretical proposition of governing the country by relying on the personal wisdom of the rulers. In China, Confucian political thought advocates the rule of man.
The rule of law holds that the rule of law is the legal system. In detail, it refers to the laws and systems established by social groups in power according to their own will through state power.
"Governing by doing nothing" comes from Tao Te Ching, which is the Taoist concept of governing the country. Governing by doing nothing is Lao Tzu's warning to the king not to argue with the people.
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Rule by man is a social system in which individuals or a few people have mastered the public power of society due to historical reasons and exercised hierarchical rule over the vast majority of other members of society through military, economic, political, legal, cultural, ethical and other material and spiritual means. Rule by man is a new theory of governing the country advocated by Confucianism, which has long been regarded as orthodox thought by feudal rulers.
It is characterized by the unified state of power. This is a one-way, top-down and hierarchical "linear" control mode. The biggest drawback of this model lies in the lack of equal interest groups or horizontal control between political power and state power, which breeds "dictatorship" and "autocracy".
However, the power base of constitutionalism is a diversified "network" power control mode formed by mutual control and restriction among multiple equal interest groups or political powers in society. The unified tradition of "rule by man" and the "linear" power control model are political obstacles to the formation of constitutionalism.
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