Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century

The present book project attempts to inquire into the state of constitutionalism in Asia in the early twenty-first century, or t ...

towards the rule of law and improved legal protection of rights have taken place in China and Vietnam. (^10) In China’s Special ...

What is new and distinctive about the modern idea of a constitution is that it is conceived as a fundamental written law which s ...

pointed out, ‘once invented the constitution could be instrumentalized for purposes other than the original ones, adopted only i ...

by the Meiji Emperor of Japan in 1889. The Qing Empire in China also attempted to move towards a constitutional monarchy in the ...

were in many cases those carved out by the former colonial powers struggling against one another. But the widespread adoption of ...

interests in the newly emergent state’. 34 Other African leaders such as Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta wer ...

concerned’, and ‘actually governing the dynamics of the power process instead of being governed by it’. (^44) A nominal constitu ...

therefore whether it is justified to regard these constitutions as a type of constitutionalism. If the measure is what was calle ...

people requested, or cherished, “the constitution,” because this term meant to them a fundamental law, or a fundamental set of p ...

outcomes, the rule of law, and judicial independence. And both are constitutions which are not fully put into practice in the co ...

‘constitutionalism in its classical sense’ (or ‘genuine constitutionalism’, abbreviated as GC); ‘Leninist–Stalinist forms of rul ...

point’ (as applied to Southeast Asian countries), defined as ‘the point in the development of a constitutional order at which th ...

amendment; constitutional litigation, the interpretation of the constitution by courts (or the constitutional court if such a co ...

Hong Kong), most of the countries in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines ...

becoming a symbolic head of state), parliamentary government, human rights and judicial review. The distinctive feature of this ...

In contrast to the apparent political stability (at the cost of totalitarian repression) and ‘dynastic’ continuity of North Kore ...

China (but not areas under the control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)) and established a new RoC government in Nanjing. Th ...

political parties (the KMT and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)) in 2000 and 2008. Since the late 1980 s, the constitution ...

The practice of ‘one country, two systems’ (OCTS) with regard to the autono- mous Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong an ...