Almost thirty years after the founding of the PRC, there was no criminal law. In 1978, Chinese leaders appointed committees of legal specialists to resume work that had been set aside for decades and to draft penal codes for immediate promulgation. In 1979, the NPC passed the first Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law. Government through law implies equality before the law. This idea stands in stark contrast to both the politicized vision of law in communist ideology and routine practices in the Maoist years. In 1978 the NPC reinstated the powers of attorney, which had been abolished in the 1960s. 2) Define the articulation of interests and provide some examples of articulation of interests in different societies. The articulation of interests is one of the functions of the political process that we can use to compare all political systems. It is also one of the process functions necessary for policies to be formulated and implemented in any type of political system. These process functions play a direct and necessary role in the policymaking process. The articulation of interests involves individuals and groups expressing their needs and demands. Most political systems have different forms of interest articulation to determine what the public and social groups want from them