TY - GEN T1 - Making we the people : democratic constitutional founding in postwar Japan and South Korea T2 - Comparative constitutional law and policy. A1 - Ham, Chae-hak A2 - Kim, Sung Ho, 1966 November 9- LA - English PP - New York, NY PB - Cambridge University Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn932097480 AB - "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"-- CN - KNC527 .H358 2015 SN - 9781139088480 SN - 1139088483 SN - 9781316429068 SN - 1316429067 SN - 9781107018822 SN - 110701882X KW - Constitutional history : Japan. KW - Constitutional history : Korea (South) KW - Histoire constitutionnelle : Japon. KW - Histoire constitutionnelle : CoreĢe du Sud. KW - LAW : Constitutional. KW - LAW : Public. KW - Constitutional history KW - Japan KW - Korea (South) ER -