Book contents
- Constitutional Reforms in China
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Constitutional Reforms in China
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 From the Third Cooperation to the Third Republic
- 2 From the Xinhai Revolution to the May Fourth Movement
- 3 The Rise and Fall of Totalitarianism
- 4 The Vicissitudes of a Crippled Reform
- 5 The Constitutional Manifesto
- 6 Towards the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Towards the Future
Constitutional Design, Social Contract, and Human Dignity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
- Constitutional Reforms in China
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Constitutional Reforms in China
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 From the Third Cooperation to the Third Republic
- 2 From the Xinhai Revolution to the May Fourth Movement
- 3 The Rise and Fall of Totalitarianism
- 4 The Vicissitudes of a Crippled Reform
- 5 The Constitutional Manifesto
- 6 Towards the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter contains answers to the Questionnaire on Constitutional Democracy for Chinese Liberal Intellectuals, which covers the basic concepts and institutional designs of constitutional democracy. China’s most pressing task is not making a new and better constitution, but rather formulating social contract through implementing the existing constitution, which does pay lip service to many political natural law precepts. Unlike many admirers of the American presidential system, I advocate for a Westminster-type parliamentary system, which has largely been borrowed by the current Chinese constitution, to be embedded in a federal framework for future China.
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- Constitutional Reforms in ChinaPast, Present, Future, pp. 230 - 290Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025