TAILIEUCHUNG - Vienam’s legislation: seventy years of development

This article looks back on the key milestones during the 70 - year development process of Vietnam’s laws and regulations, and provides assessment and predictions on the development outlook of the Vietnamese legal system in the upcoming years. | POLITICS - ECONOMICS Pham Huu Nghi Vienam’s Legislation: Seventy Years of Development Pham Huu Nghi * Abstract: In the past 70 years, Vietnam’s laws and regulations have created the legal grounds for the establishment and strengthening of the people’s democratic government, for the revolutions; ensuring and protecting the freedom and democratic rights of the citizens; and advancing the economic, social, cultural lives of society. Vietnam’s laws and regulations have also been through ups and downs. This article looks back on the key milestones during the 70 - year development process of Vietnam’s laws and regulations, and provides assessment and predictions on the development outlook of the Vietnamese legal system in the upcoming years. Key words: Vienam’s legislation; legislation tendency; legitimate state. 1. The development stages of Vietnam’s laws and regulations from 1945 to date In this article, the author uses the enactment time of new constitutions as basis for dividing the different development stages of Vietnam’s laws and regulations. For Vietnam, the constitution has been the political - legal document that closes a certain historical period and opens up a new development stage for the country and the people. In the national legal system, the constitution is the core legal document with the highest legal effect. . From 1945 to before the enactment of the Constitution of 1959 . The period from 1945 to 1954 In August 1945, under the leadership of the Vietnam Communist Party, the Vietnamese people successfully carried out the historical August Revolution, putting an end to the colonialist and feudalist regimes, and establishing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The newly - formed people’s democratic republic state had to organize its people to carry on the revolution as well as to build the nation. The mission of Vietnam’s revolution in this period was to preserve the country’s territorial integrity, to gain absolute independence and to conduct

• Lịch sử - Văn hoá
• Cultural lives of society
• Vienam’s legislation development
• Vietnam’s laws and regulations
• The Vietnamese legal
• The Vietnamese legal system in the upcoming years