The theory of constitutional law is facing a new directional dispute. In the context of Europeanization and globalization, it is dealing with a political transformation that calls into question the foundations of its discipline. This confrontation is particularly evident in the discussion of state and constitution, where the future viability of central constitutional issues is being debated. As key political terms, state and constitution encapsulate overarching political questions, such as those concerning the institutional conditions of democracy, the legitimacy of political order, and the relationship between politics and law. These genuinely political questions make the constitutional law dispute all the more interesting from a political science perspective. Verena Frick reconstructs this dispute and presents the key types of state and constitutional thinking.