After experiencing religious binds in the Middle Ages and ideal impact in the Renaissance and the Reformation, European thinkers in 17 and 18 centuries broke from the domination of natural and religious reasons in national theories, and constructed philosophically the modern theories of nation, which was dominated by the human reason. Following the British transformation from traditional feudal dynasties to modern eonstitutional nation through the Glorious Revolution, the Northern American Continent declared the formal establishment of United States of A- merica to the world after the War of Independence. One group of politicians with long-range political foresight and strong realistic tendency explored one political path of constructing the modern constitutional nation.%在经历中世纪宗教束缚，以及文艺复兴、宗教改革的观念冲击后，17—18世纪欧洲思想家从哲学上建构了现代国家理论，摆脱了自然理性和宗教理性对国家观念的支配，开启了人类理性占主导地位的现代国家理论的建构。英国经“光荣革命”从传统封建王朝变革为现代立宪国家后，北美大陆通过独立战争向世界宣称“美利坚合众国”正式成立。一群既具长远政治眼光、又有强烈现实主义倾向的政治家，探索出一条建构现代宪政国家的政治道路。
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