一、宪政话语的沉浮正如现代汉语中很多政治和法律概念一样,“宪政”一词,并不存在于古代汉语中,而是现代的创作。19世纪中叶以来,日本人开始全面和深入地研究西方文明,在日语(尤其是日文里所用的汉字)中出现了不少用以翻译西方的思想概念的词语,“宪政”(kensei)便是其中之一。在19世纪末,梁启超撰《各国宪法异同》一文,多次用到 I. The Ups and Downs of Constitutional Discourse Like many political and legal concepts in modern Chinese, the term constitutionalism does not exist in ancient Chinese but in modern writing. Since the middle of the 19th century, the Japanese began to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth study of Western civilization. Many of the words used to translate Western ideas in Japanese, especially those used in Japanese, have appeared. The words “constitution” (kensei) Is one of them. At the end of the 19th century, Liang Qichao wrote an article entitled “Similarities and Differences of Constitutions of Various Countries,” which was used many times