布鲁斯·阿克曼的二元宪政思想探析——以《我们人民》为文本-an analysis of bruce ackermanns binary constitutional thought - taking.docxVIP

AbstractTheconstitutionalhistoryoftheU.S.beganwithTheConstitutionof1787.Theconsititutionbecamethefoundationofthecountryandworkedverywellforovertwocenturies.TherearethreekeyreformsoftheConstitution.Basedonthereforms,prefesorAckerman,fromLawSchoolofYaleUniversity,didanin-depthacademicexplorationonthetheoryandpracticeoftheUnitedStatesConstitution.In1990,WethePeople:Foundations,thefirstvolumeofWethePeoplewaspublished,thenthesecondvolumeWethePeople:Transformationswaspublishedin1998.IntheseBooks,AckermanconductedacomprehensivestudyonthehistoryoftheU.S.Constitution,thusformedthecoreofhisconstitutionalthought-dualistconstitutionalism.TherearelimitedstudiesonhisconstitutionalthoughtinChina.BasedonthepreviousstudiesandtheseriesWethePeople,wetrytodosomepreliminaryanalysesonAckerman’sconstitutionalthought.Wewilldothiswithbothstatementsandcomments.Therearefourchaptersofthisarticle.Chapterone,introduction.ThispartmainlyintroducesWethePeopleseries,Ackerman’sacademicachievements,studiesofAckerman’sconstitutionalthoughtsandinnovationtheresearchmethodofthisarticle.Chaptertwo,theoriginofAckermansdualistconstitutionalism.ThischaptermainlyintroducestheformofAckermansconstitutionalthoughtformthreeaspects:theoriginofhistory,theoriginofsystemandtheoriginoftheory.TheoriginofhistoryisjustthethreekeyreformsoftheConstitution,theoriginofthesystemistherepublicanismintheAmericanconstitution,andtheoriginofthetheoryisfromPlatosmixregimethought,Aristotlesmixregimethought,Polybius’smixregimethoughtandHayek’sliberalconstitutionalism.Chapterthree,Ackerman’sdualistconstitutionalism.Partone,Ackerman’sdualistdmocracytheory.WiththestudyoftheconstitutionalhistoryofAmerica,Ackermanoverthrewtherepresentativemonism,whichwasthemostpopulartheory,bypresentinghisdualistdemocracytheory.Thisarticlewillintroducethreekeygroupsfactorsofdualistdemocracytheory:normallawmakingandhigherlawmaking,privatecitizensandpoliticalcitizens,theexpressionofpopularsovereigntyandthepracticeoflaw.Parttwo,constitutionalpoliticstheory.The