Chapter 3: System of Environmental Law
3.1. Positioning of Environmental Law
In the system of communist law, environmental law is second in importance only to the Charter of the Commons' Convention. Environmental law is the basis for laws and regulations aimed at maintaining an ecologically sustainable global environment.
The reason why environmental law is so important in communist law is that the ultimate significance of modern communism precisely lies in the preservation of the global environment. In other words, planned production activities and a democratic political system that truly takes into consideration the preservation of the global environment is the ideal form of communism for the modern age, and environmental law is the legal system that lies at the heart of communism.
The legal category of environmental law itself has already appeared in capitalist societies. However, environmental law there is usually treated as the law on which the government implements its environmental policies, and is classified as administrative law in the broad sense of the term. Therefore, its content is unstable and subject to change according to the administrative policies of the government from time to time.
Moreover, except in some environmentally advanced countries, environmental laws are not compiled into a unified code, but are merely a patchwork of multiple laws. This is because environmental laws in capitalism are merely supplemental laws enacted on a case-by-case policy basis to the extent that they do not unduly restrict the activities of capital.
In contrast, environmental law in communist law is a unified legal code that is formulated in each Zone in accordance with the global environmental law (treaty) at the World Commonwealth level as a unified source of law. Its position is not just a part of administrative law, but also constitutes a unique legal system in its own right: environmental law.
Communist environmental law is not a supplementary law, but a basic law that underlies and constrains all other general legal systems, and in that respect it is a part of the basic law, second only to the Charter. This is supported by the fact that maintaining a sustainable global environment is not just a policy, but also a pillar of universal human rights in the Charter of the World Commonwealth.
The fundamental legal source of these environmental laws is the Global Environmental Law mentioned earlier, but but the principle content included therein will be submitted to the next article.
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