Ho Chi Minh's Thoughts On Control Of The State's
Power And Lessons For Vietnam
Authors: Dinh Trung Thanh; Le Cong Huu; Nguyen Thi My Huong; Pham Thi Binh; Tran Mai Uo
Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers
: Vol. 13 (4) : 365 - 373
Publishing year: 8/2022
In Vietnam, the State’s power is unified, agencies shall assign, coordinate and control each other in the
exercises of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers. This is necessary to prevent abuse of power
and ensure the state’s power. The Constitution 1946 was written by Ho Chi Minh (1890 -1969) and
created a mechanism and foundation to control the state’s power in Vietnam. Nearly, in the
Constitution 2013, the issue of controlling state power is recorded. The assignment and control are
reflected in the assignment of the scope of power to each state agency. From the approach of
philosophical, social philosophy, and political philosophy, through research and analysis documents
in Ho Chi Minh Complete Collection; of previous researchers and policies, legal of Vietnam’s
Government on control of the state's power and lessons for Vietnam today. The result shows that Ho
Chi Minh’s thought on controlling power has shown the basic contents related to asserting that the
power owner belongs to the people and focusing on supervision; use the Constitution to limit state
power. The article also gives experiences when studying Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on state power
control over Vietnam today.
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