These remarks are in response to Michael Dowdle's comments on my article in this issue of I«CON. Professor Dowdle asserts that it is a mistake to identify China's Constitution "dead," and he attributes the cause of this mistake to "constitutional monocropping," an interesting term developed in his essay. In his article, he suggests that the modern Western tradition of "constitutionalism" was originally "highly variegated," with at least three strands: the British (democratic), the French (statist), and the American (legalist). However, "since the ending of the Second World War, the notion of 'constitutionalism' has increasingly contracted to focus limitedly on the American strain," marked by its written Constitution and the process of judicial review established in Marbury v. Madison (1803).
展开▼
