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001 2015020956
003 DLC
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008 150527s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015020956
020 $a9781107018822 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aKNC527$b.H358 2015
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084 $aLAW016000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHam, Chae-hak,$eauthor.
245 10 $aMaking we the people :$bdemocratic constitutional founding in postwar Japan and South Korea /$cChaihark Hahm, Yonsei University, Seoul; Sung Ho Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul.
263 $a1509
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2015.
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aComparative constitutional law and policy
520 $a"What does it mean to say that it is 'we the people' who 'ordain and establish' a constitution? Who are those sovereign people, and how can they do so? Interweaving history and theory, constitutional scholar Chaihark Hahm and political theorist Sung Ho Kim attempt to answer these perennial questions by revisiting the constitutional politics of postwar Japan and Korea. Together, these experiences demonstrate the infeasibility of the conventional assumption that there is a clearly bounded sovereign 'people' prior to constitution-making which may stand apart from both outside influence and troubled historical legacies. The authors argue that 'we the people' only emerges through a deeply transformative politics of constitutional founding and, as such, a democratic constitution and its putative author are mutually constitutive. Highly original and genuinely multidisciplinary, this book will be of interest to scholars of comparative constitutionalism as well as observers of ongoing constitutional debates in Japan and Korea"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The unbearable lightness of the people; 2. War and peace; 3. The ghost of empire past; 4. A room of one's own; Conclusion.
650 0 $aConstitutional history$zJapan.
650 0 $aConstitutional history$zSouth Korea.
650 7 $aLAW / Comparative.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aKim, Sung Ho,$d1966 November 9-
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/18822/cover/9781107018822.jpg