How to Cultivate College Students' Socialist Legal Literacy

College students are an important force in building a socialist country ruled by law, so we must strengthen socialist legal cultivation. We should not only learn legal knowledge, master legal methods, participate in legal practice and cultivate socialist legal thinking mode, but also establish legal belief, publicize legal knowledge, dare to fight against illegal and criminal acts and consciously safeguard socialist legal authority. First, whether the process of building a socialist country ruled by law can be smoothly advanced depends to some extent on whether the socialist legal thought can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The tasks of legal publicity and education in China include not only publicizing and popularizing legal knowledge, but also striving to improve citizens' legal thinking level. (I) The meaning of legal thinking mode The so-called legal thinking mode refers to the habit and orientation of thinking, analyzing and solving legal problems in accordance with the provisions, principles and spirit of the law. In general, legal issues often include political, economic or moral issues, which can be considered and handled from the perspective of morality, economy and politics. However, once these problems are included in the scope of legal adjustment, they should be considered and dealt with in accordance with the provisions, principles and spirit of the law. In quite a few cases, thinking and dealing with problems according to legal thinking and thinking and dealing with problems according to moral thinking, economic thinking or political thinking will lead to the same or similar conclusions, but in some cases, different conclusions may be drawn. For example, paying off debts is a common moral principle in almost all societies. The law protects the legitimate rights of creditors, but it has a statute of limitations. According to the General Principles of Civil Law, the limitation of action for creditors to request the people's court to protect their creditor's rights is two years. That is to say, if the creditor has neither brought a lawsuit against the debtor to the court within two years, nor asked the debtor to repay it, and the debtor has not indicated that he wants to repay the debt, then the creditor's right will no longer be protected by law. Although the law does not force the debtor to perform his obligations, it does not object to the debtor's self-performance, because morally speaking, no matter how long a debt has passed, the debtor has the obligation to repay it. In this case, legal thinking and moral thinking conflict. It must be emphasized that the thinking and handling of legal issues should give priority to legal thinking, and moral principles and moral evaluation should not replace legal rules and evaluations. (B) the characteristics of the legal way of thinking about the law. Legal thinking: To think and deal with legal problems, we must first take the law as the criterion. Whether an act is legal or illegal, whether it is illegal or criminal, whether it should bear legal responsibility, what kind of legal responsibility it should bear, and so on. , should be judged according to law. If we think and deal with problems without law, we can't talk about legal thinking. In social life, people sometimes encounter conflicts between law and reason, law and emotion, and encounter reasonable or unreasonable situations. However, even if people feel that some legal provisions are unreasonable and unreasonable, they cannot ignore, violate or shelve the law. A law stipulates that as long as it is not amended or abolished, it is effective and people are obliged to abide by or implement it. If the people feel that a certain legal provision is unreasonable, they can put forward suggestions for amendment or repeal to the relevant state organs, which will amend or repeal the legal provision. However, before the state amends or abolishes the legal provision, the people must still abide by or implement it. Tell the evidence. Legal thinking Thinking and handling legal problems should be based on evidence. To correctly analyze and handle legal cases, we should grasp two key issues: one is to find out the facts of the case, and the other is to apply the law correctly. Only by collecting enough evidence can we find out the facts of the case. Generally speaking, evidence is a fact that can prove the true situation of a case in the form prescribed by law. Legal evidence is different from general facts. First of all, evidence should be legal, that is, the form, collection and verification of evidence should comply with the law. Secondly, the evidence should be objective, that is, it must be objective and true, neither catching shadows nor making subjective assumptions. Thirdly, the evidence should be relevant, that is, the evidence can only prove the facts of the case if it has substantial connection with the facts of the case. Talk about the procedure. Legal thinking Thinking and handling legal problems should start from legal procedures. Procedural issues occupy a very important position in the legal field. To put it simply, procedure is the way and process of legal behavior stipulated by law, and the law restricts people's behavior by stipulating clear procedures. The program tells people what to do first, then what to do, and how to do these things legally. Compared with other types of thinking, legal thinking pays more attention to the procedural issues of behavior. Talk about jurisprudence. Legal thinking: to think and deal with legal issues, we should use legal principles and spirit. The task of legal thinking is not only to get the conclusion of handling legal problems, but also to provide sufficient legal argumentation and legal reasons for legal conclusions. Any rational thinking should support the conclusion with appropriate reasons, and legal thinking has more special requirements for reasons. First of all, the reason must be public, not secret. Second, the reason must have a legal basis. Third, the reasons must be legally convincing. In this regard, the primary task of legal thinking is not so much to seek a conclusion to solve the problem, but rather to seek a legal reason to draw a conclusion based on it-a reason acceptable to a person who recognizes and relies on the law. (3) Ways to cultivate legal thinking It is not an easy task to cultivate legal thinking, which requires efforts. By learning legal knowledge, mastering legal methods and participating in legal practice, college students can gradually develop the habit of thinking, analyzing and solving legal problems from a legal perspective in their daily lives. Learn legal knowledge. Learning and mastering basic legal knowledge is the premise of cultivating legal thinking mode. A person who knows nothing about legal knowledge cannot form a legal way of thinking. Legal knowledge usually includes knowledge of laws and regulations and knowledge of legal principles, both of which are very important for cultivating legal thinking mode. Only by understanding the specific provisions of laws and regulations on a certain issue and the principles and principles of the law can we better understand the legal spirit, develop legal thinking, and use legal thinking to think and deal with various legal issues. Master legal methods. Legal method is a way for people to think, analyze and solve legal problems from the legal point of view. Legal methods constitute the basic elements of legal thinking, and the process of legal thinking is the process of thinking, analyzing and solving legal problems by using legal methods. To cultivate legal thinking mode, we must master legal methods. It should be pointed out that the legal methods used by legal workers are quite complicated, including legal interpretation, legal reasoning, filling legal loopholes and ascertaining facts. Each basic method includes a series of specific methods. It is necessary for college students to understand and master some basic legal methods. Participate in legal practice. Legal thinking mode is a way of thinking that is trained, cultivated and applied in legal practice. Without specific legal life and legal practice, it is impossible to form a legal way of thinking. Only by participating in various legal activities and using legal knowledge and methods to think, analyze and solve legal problems in legal practice can we develop conscious legal thinking habits. With the continuous advancement of the construction of a socialist country ruled by law, the adjustment scope of law to social life will be more and more extensive, and people will inevitably face more and more legal affairs. This not only puts forward urgent requirements for the cultivation of legal thinking mode, but also provides good conditions for the cultivation of legal thinking mode. Second, establish and maintain the authority of socialist law. Socialist law has authority and dignity in national and social life, which is the premise of building a socialist country ruled by law. Every citizen, including college students, has the obligation and responsibility to establish and safeguard the authority of socialist law. (1) Significance of maintaining legal authority Legal authority refers to the position and role of law in the process of state and social management, and refers to the inviolability of law. The establishment of legal authority mainly depends on the external coercion and internal persuasion of law. The external coercive force of law is the external condition of legal authority, which is mainly manifested in the state's sanctions against illegal acts. Although legal authority cannot be completely based on external coercion, the necessary external coercion is an indispensable condition for establishing legal authority. The internal persuasiveness of law is the internal foundation of legal authority. If we only rely on external coercive force, it is impossible for the law to form real authority. The inherent persuasiveness of law comes from the inherent rationality of law itself, such as the rationality of law, the maintenance of justice, the promotion of efficiency, the simplicity of law, and the rationality of the process of law implementation, such as the fairness of law enforcement and justice. It is precisely because of the inherent rationality of the law itself and its implementation that the law is respected, trusted and respected. In contemporary China, establishing legal authority is of great significance for building a socialist country ruled by law and realizing long-term stability of the country. Legal authority is a solid foundation for national stability. When the highest authority of a country is a personal leader, political stability and the rise and fall of the country will depend on the personal leader. With the change of leaders, the country's political situation is likely to fluctuate greatly, and policies and laws will also change frequently. When the supreme authority of the country is the law, because the law is a universal rule that transcends any individual and has stability and continuity, although leaders will constantly flow and change, political rule and social order will still maintain considerable stability and continuity. (2) Consciously safeguarding the socialist legal authority. The establishment of the socialist legal authority depends on the efforts of both the state and the individual citizens. From the national point of view, we should take various effective measures to eliminate the factors that damage the authority of socialist law. For example, it is necessary to further improve the quality of legislation and ensure the scientificity and rationality of the law; Improve the implementation of laws and ensure that laws are strictly enforced and offenders are prosecuted; Carry out legal publicity and education in depth to enhance the legal awareness of the whole society. From a personal point of view, we should strive to safeguard the authority of socialist law through various means. For college students, at least the following three aspects should be achieved: strive to establish legal beliefs. Only when a person truly recognizes, trusts and believes in the law from the bottom of his heart will he consciously safeguard the authority of the law. College students should seriously study legal knowledge, deeply understand the important role of law in modern society, and profoundly grasp the spirit of China's socialist law, so as to establish a belief in China's socialist law. Actively publicize legal knowledge. While studying and mastering legal knowledge, college students should also publicize legal knowledge to others. In particular, it is necessary to publicize the concept of socialist rule of law, help people completely eradicate feudal remnants such as "power is greater than law" and "rule by man is inferior to rule by law", publicize the superiority of China's socialist laws, make people understand, be familiar with and agree with China's socialist laws, and thus promote the whole society to form a good fashion of respecting and safeguarding the authority of socialist laws. Dare to fight against illegal and criminal acts. Illegal and criminal behavior is not only the destruction of social order, but also the contempt for legal authority. College students should not only have law-abiding consciousness and consciously abide by national laws, but also dare and be good at fighting against illegal and criminal acts and consciously safeguard legal authority. There are various ways to crack down on illegal and criminal acts, including taking effective measures in advance to prevent the occurrence of illegal and criminal acts, and stopping, reporting and exposing illegal and criminal acts afterwards.