Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions. Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty - James B. Palais

712 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION the inheritance of land and slaves, but they did not perceive it to be an agency for contr ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 713 cern over a number of natural disturbances and murders, which they interpreted as Heaven's revenge ...

714 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Way (tohak) when, in reality, they spent their time in slander and unwarranted criticism o ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 715 Yi's economic argument, however, suffered from a serious contradiction because he admitted that the ...

716 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION T'oegye's Community Compacts Through the end of My6ngjong's reign there was thus no progre ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 717 compact meeting for major transgressions. If the violator failed to correct his ways, the compact s ...

718 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Compact, but the Ministry of Rites opposed the idea because under current famine condition ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 719 cius, he argued that moral principles could not bc successfully inculcated if the people were desti ...

720 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION lagers and close relatives engaged in constant disputes. If someone from the vil- lage hap ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 721 sibility for the equitable distribution and collection of taxes and assignment of labor service, by ...

722 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZA nON bers of the community and allowing the people to correct their own mistakes before meting ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 723 the compact was required to petition collectively to obtain a pardon for any per- son who was about ...

724 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Compact (Haeju ilhyang yaksak) that contained a far longer list of misdemeanors and punish ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 725 defense, and jointly sign a petition requesting his release from jail. The mem- bers also had to pr ...

726 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION est rung of the social ladder as hain or inferior persons. The term for commoner (s6) was ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 727 A low person was not allowed even to keep his grievances to himself, for if he failed to report any ...

728 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION from official granaries were also included. What would be regarded as legiti- mate (albcit ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 729 erty rights of the landlords and slaveholders and reducing (if not abolishing) both the inherited p ...

730 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION other moral texts, but some officials complained in the early 1630S that young students ha ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 73I the lower person was to be beaten. If a yangban had no slave of his own and not enough money to hir ...