讲座简介：

随着美国式的司法审查制被当作世界各国宪法改革的主要参照，宪法古典传统中的政治和社会涵义往往在法律移植过程中被遗忘了。本讲座意在引领学生们回归古典宪法学将宪法当作政治共同体的一种生活方式的内涵，追溯从古典到现代到当代宪法的演进过程;并在此视角下，将中国宪法的发展嵌入其历史和发展逻辑之中。这并非否认现代宪法保护人权的基本功能，而是意在寻求以一种客观的方式帮助外国学生理解中国宪法发展历史，并审视其成就与不足。宪法作为人民建立和组织国家机构的根本大法，必然是我们对自身政治生活期望之反映。正是在这一意义上，宪法具有其中国特色，并作为一种公民教育与每个普通公民息息相关。

Since the judicial constitutionalism of the USA is taken by more and more countries in the world as the chief reference point for their constitutional reforms, the political and social implications of classical constitutionalism have to a large extent been left behind in the process of legal transplantation. This lecture aims firstly to lead the students to the classical constitutional tradition, where the constitution is taken as a register for the way of life of the political community, and then traces the evolution of constitutional ideas from the classical to the modern and contemporary constitutionalism. In this perspective, this lecture re-embeds the development of Chinese constitution in its own history and developmental logic. However, this does not mean to deny the basic function of constitutional law in human rights protection, but to seek an objective way for the foreign students to interpret the constitutional history of China, and to review its achievements and drawbacks. Constitution as the fundamental law in establishing and organizing state powers, inevitably reflects the people’s expectations for their political life. In such a sense, the Constitution has its ‘Chinese characteristics’ and is also a civic education engaged by every citizen.