美国自独立之后,其经济发展速度之快,是世界历史上所罕见的,它为何能后来居上?原因很多。在此,笔者提出美国宪法与其经济发展问题,意在引起学者们的注意.北美独立战争的爆发是殖民地商业资本发展的必然结果.经济的发展必然要求政治上的独立.然而,与独立战争的胜利一起俱来的并非政治上的真正统一,当时的联邦政府并不是一个真正的政府,而只是为适应战争需要而设立的“外交机构”、有人甚至描绘它是“一个头脑受四肢控制的怪物”. Since the independence of the United States, its economy has grown rapidly and is rarely seen in the history of the world. Why can it stay high? There are many reasons for this. At this point, the author proposes that the issue of the U.S. Constitution and its economic development is intended to attract the attention of scholars.The outbreak of the North American War of Independence is an inevitable result of the development of commercial capital in the colonies. Economic development necessarily requires political independence. However, Victory is not a political unity. The federal government at the time was not a real government but a “diplomatic institution” set up to meet the needs of the war. Some even described it as “a monster with controlled limbs ”.