一、人民陪审员制度的功能定位的冲突与异化(一)立法上:标志司法民主的政治功能。新中国成立前,中国共产党领导下的各苏区便以陪审员制度作为其法律制度的代表,与国民党政权的司法制度显示出根本区别。当时设立陪审员制度的核心目的是彰显人民民主政权的优越性,而未必是基于陪审员制度本身的司法功能。新中国成立后,国家对陪审员制度的这一思路得以延续和发展 I. Conflict and Alienation of Functional Positioning of the People’s Juror System (I) Legislation: The Political Function of Judicial Democracy. Before the founding of New China, the Soviet areas under the leadership of the CPC took the system of jurors as their legal system and showed a fundamental difference from the Kuomintang regime’s judicial system. At that time, the core purpose of setting up a jury system was to highlight the superiority of the people’s democratic regime and not necessarily based on the judicial function of the jury system itself. After the founding of new China, the national system of jurors to this idea to be continued and developed