一、引言对我而言,用一篇短文(长文亦然)介绍美国宪法学的研究现状,无疑是一项不可能的任务,这主要有三方面的原因:一则研究美国宪法的文献多不胜数,而且似乎也不存在撰写综述的传统,虽则《哈佛法律评论》(Harvard Law Review)以及其他一些法学杂志,每年都有一期以“美国联邦最高法院之审期”为题的专刊,但似乎也仅限于对美国联邦最高法院在这一审期内所作的主要判决的评述,并依此而分析其司法政策(judicial policies)。这使得自己在撰写论文时缺乏可资参照的既有成果。二则因为语言能力有限,这不仅限制了自己对一些文章作深入理解和分析的可能性,也在很大程度上限制自 I. INTRODUCTION It is undoubtedly an impossible task for me to introduce the present state of the research on American constitutional law in an essay (as long as it is written). There are three main reasons for this: one is the study of the American constitution Numerous, and no tradition of writing reviews seems to exist, though the Harvard Law Review and other journals of magistracy each year have a special issue titled “Trial of the Supreme Court of the United States.” But it also seems to be limited to commenting on the main decisions of the United States Supreme Court during the trial period and analyzing its judicial policies accordingly. This leaves me with a lack of available results when writing my essay. Second, because of their limited language ability, this not only limits their possibility of in-depth understanding and analysis of some articles, but also limits to a large extent