John Hart Ely’s representation-reinforcing theory of the US Constitution had a significant impact on the drafting of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. This short article begins by recapping briefly the pathway by which that influence occurred. It then expands on earlier accounts in two ways. The first is to suggest that Ely’s influence in New Zealand illustrates the significance of American postgraduate legal education programs as a vector for the migration of constitutional ideas (although the causal relationship in this case is neither straightforward nor direct). The second is to confront more explicitly a nagging question raised by earlier scholarship: to what extent was it Ely specifically (rather than US process theories more generally) that influenced the New Zealand experience? The article suggests that, at very least, Ely’s work acted as the conduit by which the ideas underlying American process theory were transmitted into the New Zealand text. Although it is inevitably somewhat speculative, the article also suggests that it is unlikely that, in the absence of Ely, the drafters of the N.Z. Bill of Rights would have pursued a process-perfecting strategy with quite the same vigilance and systematicity.

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伊利在新西兰

约翰·哈特·伊利 (John Hart Ely) 的美国宪法代表强化理论对 1990 年新西兰权利法案法案的起草产生了重大影响。这篇短文首先简要回顾了这种影响发生的途径。然后，它以两种方式扩展了早期的帐户。首先是认为伊利在新西兰的影响说明了美国研究生法律教育计划作为宪法思想迁移的载体的重要性（尽管这种情况下的因果关系既不直接也不直接）。第二个是更明确地面对早期学术提出的一个棘手的问题：在多大程度上是 Ely 具体（而不是更普遍的美国过程理论）影响了新西兰的经验？这篇文章表明，至少，伊利的作品充当了将美国过程理论的基本思想传递到新西兰文本的渠道。尽管不可避免地有些投机性，但该文章也表明，在伊利缺席的情况下，新西兰权利法案的起草者不太可能以同样的警惕和系统性追求流程完善的战略。