虽然英国是最早产生司法审查思想的国家,但是最早建立司法审查制度的国家是美国,继承了自然法思想的美国司法审查制度迄今已有200多年的历史。本文从对美国司法审查制度的概况入手,探究了基本定义,对其进行初步定位;然后从理论和实践两大角度探析了它产生的本质溯源,熟识司法审查制度得以产生的土壤与条件。 Although the United Kingdom was the first country that had the idea of ​​judicial review, the earliest country to establish a judicial review system was the United States, and the U.S. judicial review system that inherited the idea of ​​natural law has a history of more than 200 years. This article starts with an overview of the judicial review system in the United States, explores the basic definitions and preliminarily locates them. Then, from two perspectives of theory and practice, this essay probes into the nature of the origins and the conditions and soil for the judicial review system.