高建军在《中国青年政治学院学报》2008年第6期撰文认为,在二十世纪以前,强调政府权力的有限性一直是主导西方宪政理论发展和宪政实践的最根本理念。现代宪政理论要求国家承担大量积极的政治职能,福利国家是其目标。当代宪政理论志在寻求有效与有限之间的平衡。对于中国的政治 Gao Jianjun said in “Journal of China Youth University for Political Science,” 2008, No. 6, the author argues that before the twentieth century, emphasizing the limited power of government has been the most fundamental idea that dominates the development of constitutional theory and constitutional practice in the West. The modern constitutional theory requires the state to undertake a large number of positive political functions, and the welfare state is its goal. Contemporary constitutionalism seeks to find a balance between effective and limited. For China’s politics