Law of the Republic of China is mainly based on the civil law system. The legal structure is codified into the Six Codes:
- the Constitution (憲法)
- the Civil Code (民法)
- the Code of Civil Procedure (民事訴訟法) and associated laws
- the Criminal Code (刑法)
- the Code of Criminal Procedure (刑事訴訟法) and associated laws
- the administrative and administrative procedure laws
In the area of constitutional law, the Republic of China uses the 1947 Constitution which was promulgated for the whole of China (including Taiwan), although numerous changes have been made to take into account the fact that the Republic of China only controls Taiwan and two counties of Fukien since the 1950s.
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“All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.”
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