写作本文的直接目的不在于参与当下的某场“辩论”,而在于陈述一些事实。但我承认,是中国大陆知识界无数鼓吹“私产保护入宪”的煌煌大言勾起了我的“索隐癖”。这些大言所援用的资源主要有两个:一是美国如何如何;二是从理论上讲应该如何如何,并且最终构造了一个围绕美国宪法关 The direct purpose of writing this article is not to participate in a present “debate”, but rather to state some facts. However, I acknowledge that the brilliant remark made by numerous intellectual circles in mainland China that advocating the “protection of private property into the Constitution” has given rise to my “quibble.” There are two main sources of these aversive resources: first, how the United States is; second, how it should theoretically be, and finally,