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Making We the People

Making We the People

Hahm, Chaihark
Kim, Sung Ho

Hardcover

Series: Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy

General Law

ISBN10: 110701882X
ISBN13: 9781107018822
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 10 2015
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 which may stand 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 scholars of comparative constitutionalism as well as observers of ongoing constitutional debates in Japan and Korea.

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