一、民初私拟宪草的时代基调与学术意义近现代中国政制演进过程中的一大突出特色便是制宪及由此而展开的论争。从法理上讲,制宪是宪政的前提条件。自晚清于内外兼迫之下开启立宪运动之序幕,制宪之争便以异常激烈的形式表现出来。毋庸讳言,相较于宪法即宪法政治的运作而言,宪法之制定及宪政架构之设计更关注或取决于“宪法”与“政府”两个维度所组成的 I. The Keynote and Academic Significance of the Constitutional Monarchy in the Early Republic of China One of the outstanding features of the evolution of the political system in modern China is the constitutional formulation and the controversy resulting therefrom. From the legal point of view, constitutional constitutionalism is a prerequisite. Since the beginning of the constitutional movement under the pretext of internal and external coercion since the late Qing Dynasty, the battle for constitutionality has been shown in an extremely fierce form. Needless to say, constitutional formulation and the design of the constitutional structure are more concerned with or depend on the two dimensions of “constitutional” and “government” than the constitutional operation of constitutional politics