著者

立花 希一 TACHIBANA Kiichi

出版者

秋田大学教育文化学部

雑誌

秋田大学教育文化学部研究紀要 人文科学・社会科学 (ISSN:1348527X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.64, pp.33-44, 2009-03-01

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This paper has two aims. The first is to warn Japan against making the same mistakes made by the Israelites of ancientIsrael in their choice of government. After the Exodus, because the people were sovereign, they initially had the opportunityto choose their form of government using democratic procedures. The government they chose, however, wasanti-democratic theocracy, and they eventually abandoned their popular sovereignty. Their choice, therefore, may be describedas democratic suicide.The second aim of the paper is to integrate a desirable theory of sovereignty with Popper's theory of democracy inwhich all kinds of (unchecked) sovereignty are rejected. The integrated theory of democracy proposed in this paper willbe suitable for the idea of democracy as popular sovereignty in Japan, which is prescribed in the current Japanese constitution(Minshushugi in the sense of Kokumin-shuken or Shuken-zaimin).