1、民主•宪政•美德——《联邦党人文集》的“共和”概念作者:赖建华[摘要] 《联邦党人文集》是现代政治学的经典名著,对美国宪法的意涵作了深度的理论阐述。共和概念是《联邦党人文集》的核心概念。从联邦党人整体理路来看,共和概念对他们所欲构建的复合共和制政治理论具有基石性作用。在构筑共和概念时,联邦党人继承并改造了古典共和概念中的民主、公民美德等成分,并把宪政学说引入其中,从而拓展了共和概念。[关键词] 共和 民主 宪政 公民美德 【Abstract】The Federalist Papers, which is a classic maste
2、rpiece of the modern political science, expanded profoundly on the meaning of the Constitution of the Unite States in theory. According to the whole train of thought of the Federalists, the concept republic, which is the core of The Federalist Papers, is the foundation stone of the
3、 compound republic theory the Federalists wanted to constructed. To build such a concept, the Federalists not only inherited and redeveloped the classical republic conception,but also drew the constitutionalism into it, and thus broadened the concept republic. 【Key Words】repub