一、问题的提出:“失败的遗产”之宪政悖论地方自治,简而言之,即是依据分权原理设计的相对于中央集权的,由地方上的民众进行自我管理、自我治理的一种地方治理模式,在时下惯常的学术理解中也被认为是宪政制度的重要内容之一。发轫于清末民初的地方自治风潮,由于其时地方自治被认为是清末立宪的首要任务,加上民初沸沸扬扬的联省自治政治实践,更是得到了包括法学界、史学界、政治学界等多个领域学者的关注,相关研究成 First, the question raised: “constitutional paradox of failed legacy ” Local autonomy, in short, is based on the principle of decentralization designed relative to the centralization of power by local people to self-management, self-governance Is one of the most important parts of the constitutional system in the conventional academic understanding. In the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China, local autonomy wave was attributed to local autonomy was considered to be the primary task of constitutional power in the late Qing Dynasty. Coupled with the self-governing political practice in the federal government during the early years of the Republic of China, more and more scholars were included in the field of law, historians and political scholars. Many scholars in the field of concern, related research into