Making We the People

Democratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea

AvChaihark Hahm,Sung Ho Kim

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

What does it mean to say that it is 'We the People' who 'ordain and establish' a constitution? Who are those sovereign people, and how can they do so? Interweaving history and theory, constitutional scholar Chaihark Hahm and political theorist Sung Ho Kim attempt to answer these perennial questions by revisiting the constitutional politics of postwar Japan and Korea. Together, these experiences demonstrate the infeasibility of the conventional assumption that there is a clearly bounded sovereign 'people' prior to constitution-making that stands apart from both outside influence and troubled historical legacies. The authors argue that 'We the People' only emerges through a deeply transformative politics of constitutional founding and, as such, a democratic constitution and its putative author are mutually constitutive. Highly original and genuinely multidisciplinary, this book will be of interest to democratic theorists and scholars of comparative constitutionalism as well as observers of ongoing constitutional debates in Japan and Korea.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-12-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:610 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
Antal sidor:330
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107018822

Utforska kategorier

Konstitution: stat och regering inom Samhälle och politik
Komparativ rätt inom Juridik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Chaihark Hahm is Professor of Constitutional Law at Yonsei University Law School, Seoul, Korea and an editorial board member of I•CON: International Journal of Constitutional Law. He holds law degrees from Yale, Columbia, and Harvard. Sung Ho Kim is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Social Science Research Institute at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He is the author of Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society, which was also published by Cambridge University Press.

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'Hahm and Kim's extraordinary intellectual achievement provides rare illumination of the crucial and deeply misunderstood concept of popular sovereignty. Their learned, elegant, and searching analysis should be an enduring part of the conversation that must be conducted if we are to make sense of our common constitutional predicament.' Gary J. Jacobsohn, H. Malcolm Macdonald Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law, University of Texas, Austin