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Asia - Constitutional Systems in Late Twentieth Century Asia. Edited by Lawrence W. Beer. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 740. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Kevin Y.L. Tan
Kevin Y.L. Tan
Affiliation:
National University of Singapore
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , September 1993 , pp. 378 - 380
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1993

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References

1 The first volume was Constitutionalism in Asia: Asian Views of the American Influence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979)Google Scholar.

2 The countries included in the study are the People's Republic of China, The Republic of China (Taiwan), Japan, North and South Korea, Vietnam, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

3 These include separation of power, judicial independence, free and regular elections, restraints on the power of the military, property rights and economic freedom, freedom of expression and right of silence, legal tolerance for expression of personal and group beliefs, respect for desires for self-governance, procedural rights in criminal and civil cases, and acceptance of the constitution and human rights as supreme law.