英国学者劳特派特曾指出:“如果没有自然法体系和自然法先知者的学说,近代宪法和近代国际法都不会有今天这个样子。在自然法的帮助下,历史教导人类走出中世纪的制度进入近代的制度。”的确,尽管导致近代宪法与宪政产生的原因很多,但如果从思想渊源上考察则可发现,古典自然法思想居于极为重要的地位。 The British scholar Lauterpacht once pointed out: “Without the doctrine of the natural law system and the law of natural law, modern constitutional law and modern international law do not have the appearance of today. With the help of natural law, history taught mankind to go out of the medieval system Into the modern system. ”Indeed, despite the many reasons that led to the emergence of modern constitutionalism and constitutionalism, the examination of ideological origins suggests that classical natural law thought was of paramount importance.