The rule of law should be the goal of building a socialist legal system.Legislative efforts to combat terrorist crimes ought to be included within the framework of the rule of law.The rule of law is the art trade-off between freedom and order, rights and power.Legislative efforts to combat terrorist crimes need to have a good balance between freedom and order, right and power.It is not desirable to think that there is a "half and half" balance between freedom and order.Since the weigh-style cogitation taking into account characteristics of counter-terrorism, it is advocated.Legislative principles to combat terrorist crimes include:the principle of supremacy of the Constitution, the principle of maintaining order, the principle of protecting rights, and the scientific principle.The whole "People's Republic of China Anti-terrorism Act (draft)" shows the feature of "enough severity but insufficient flexibility".The concept of relying on power to protect order is contrary to the rule of law, so the weigh-style cogitation should be applied to correct it.