亚里士多德《政治学》中的政体观念包含了最高治权在统治团体内部分享以及最高治权的制度化安排这两层含义,但不具备现代宪政意义上的保障主义内涵和根本法观念。因此,不宜将古典政体直接称作“古典宪政”。中国的宪政建设既需要现代宪政的保障主义内涵,也需要西方古典政体的共和内涵。 The concept of the political system in Aristotle’s “Political Science” contains the two meanings of the institutional arrangement of the supreme governing within the governing body and the supreme governing, but it does not have the safeguarding connotation and the concept of fundamental law in the modern constitutional sense . Therefore, it is inappropriate to call the classical regime directly “classical constitutionalism.” China’s constitutional development not only needs the protectionism connotation of the modern constitutional government, but also needs the republican connotation of the western classical government.