江泽民同志8月7日的讲话,总结了历史发展和我国社会主义实践经验,具有重要的理论意义和现实意义。法学是社会科学的重要学科,党的十一届三中全会后,愈加受到党和国家的重视。其研究成果,对于坚持党的基本路线,增强人们的权利和义务观念,加强社会主义民主法治,实现两个文明建设,促进我国人民与世界各国人民的交流与合作,都起了重要作用。党的十五大进一步将依法治国,建设社会主义法治国家确立为治国方略,九届全国人大二次会议通过《宪法修正案》,将其载入宪法。这表明,法治在中国日益深入人心,并成为宪法原则。当然,将法治确立为宪法原则,并非说法治已经成为现实。实现法治,既需要认识深 Comrade Jiang Zemin’s speech of August 7 summed up historical development and the practical experience of socialism in our country and has important theoretical and practical significance. Law is an important discipline in social science. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, law and order are increasingly valued by the party and the state. Its research achievements have played an important role in upholding the party’s basic line, enhancing people’s rights and obligations, strengthening socialist democracy and the rule of law, realizing the two civilizations and promoting the exchanges and cooperation between our people and people of all countries in the world. The 15th National Congress of the CPC further established the strategy of governing the country according to law and building a socialist country under the rule of law as a strategy for running the country. The Second Session of the Ninth National People’s Congress passed the Amendment to the Constitution and incorporated it into the Constitution. This shows that the rule of law enjoys ever-increasing popularity in China and has become the constitutional principle. Of course, establishing the rule of law as a constitutional principle does not mean that the rule of law has become a reality. To realize the rule of law, we need to know deeply