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020			_a 9781139088480 (ebook) :
040			_aMAIN
041			_aENG
082			_a342.5195029
245			_aMaking We the People : _bDemocratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea [electronic resource] / _cby Chae-hak Ham and Sung Ho Kim.
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2015.
300			_a1 online resource (316 p.)
440			_aComparative constitutional law and policy.
500			_aTable of contents: Chapter 1. The Unbearable Lightness of the People Chapter 2. War and Peace Chapter 3. The Ghost of Empire Past; Unmasterable Pasts Chapter 4. A room of one's own Conclusion
504			_aIncludes bibliography, glossary and index.
520			_a"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"
650			_aLaw.
650			_aConstitutional history.
700			_aKim, Sung Ho
856			_3Cambridge core online _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139088480
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