Over the last three decades, international lawyers and institutions have come to understand constitution-making as an accepted technique of international law and a means of delivering peace and security. In defending this technique from its critics, scholars have drawn on a particular tradition of constitution-making that understands constitutionalism as a lawful form of international action, realizable through a set of formal practices, and juridically distinct from material concerns. This Article explores the building of this tradition through the work of legal scholars within the United States in conversation with German and Jewish émigré scholars and argues that reimagining constitutionalism for the coming decades requires rethinking this separation between the juridical and the material, as well as asking what constitutionalism demands of the laws governing the global economy.

在过去的三十年里，国际律师和机构已经开始将宪法制定理解为一种公认的国际法技术和实现和平与安全的一种手段。在捍卫这种技术不受其批评者的影响时，学者们借鉴了一种特殊的制宪传统，这种传统将宪政理解为国际行动的一种合法形式，可以通过一系列正式实践实现，并且在法律上不同于物质关注。本文通过美国法律学者与德国和犹太移民学者的对话探讨了这一传统的建立，并认为在未来几十年重新构想宪政需要重新思考法律与物质之间的这种分离，