编者按:在美国宪法解释理论中,如何解释成文宪法一直是学术研究的重要主题。原意主义或曰原旨主义是指依据制宪者的意图或宪法条文的原初含义来解释宪法,是美国最具争议和影响力的宪法解释方法。自这一理论提出以来,原意主义宪法解释理论与方法的发展历程就是一个理论观念丰富、不断推陈出新且复杂 Editor’s Note: How to interpret a written constitution has always been an important theme of academic research in the US theory of constitutional interpretation. Formalism or fundamentalism refers to the interpretation of the Constitution on the basis of the intention of the constitutionalists or the original meaning of the constitutional provisions. It is the most controversial and influential constitutional interpretation method in the United States. Since the theory was put forward, the development course of the theory and method of the constitutional interpretation of the originalism is that one theory is rich in concept,