STATE ADMINISTRATION’S DOCUMENTS HIGHLY RELIABLE AND ACCURATE HISTORIC MATERIAL SOURCES

Abstract

Based on the shown concept of the state administration’s documents, and by means of the brief view over the system of state administration’s documents through the historic periods in Vietnam such as: the feudality era, the French colonialist period, and from the August Revolution of 1945 till now..., the author made a state administration’s documents analysis if drafted and issued in complying with their basic characteristics as:

- Documents stipulated under the name of the agencies, of organization, or of organization or agency ’s head, individual issue non concerning ;

- Revealing the unilateral rights documents, with the power - submission relation expression;

- The documents stipulated in regulated and unified forms, processing and presentation, as decided by the authorizing state agency.

From these observations the author would like to determine the special outstanding value of state administration’s documents as material sources in historic study, under their archive form. Beside their characteristics as the holding of information from the past and as remaining archives - the state administration‘s documents are still highly reliable and accurate. As at the publishing, they are linked with the functions, the duties, the rights of the agency; linked with the authority; linked with the process and order of the publishing; with the unified form, presentation and layout as regulated by the state authorizing agency.