大约从2008年春季开始,我每年都会给中国政法大学的本科生开设“美国宪政史”选修课,几年下来,学生反映不错,自己也积累了一些教学心得。其中最大的感触在于,讲美国宪法,不能只从1787年费城制宪讲起,应该向前拓展,谈谈殖民地时期与美国独立后的各邦(州)制宪经验。在1787年之前,美国宪法实际上有个实验期,而这种试验思想, Starting from the spring of 2008, every year, I offer “American Constitutional History” electives to undergraduates of China University of Political Science and Law. For a few years, students reflected well and accumulated some teaching experience. The biggest feeling is that speaking of the U.S. Constitution can not be expanded from the constitution of Philadelphia in 1787. We should move forward and talk about the constitutional experience of the states (states) after the colonial period and the independence of the United States. Before 1787, the U.S. constitution actually had an experimental period, and this experimental idea,