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Is the Constitutional Court the Sovereign Institution? - Dissolution of the Unified Progressive Party and Constitutional Identity of the Republic of Korea
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헌법재판소는 주권적 수임기관인가? : 대한민국의 헌법적 정체성과 통합진보당 해산결정

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Jongcheol Kim (연세대학교)
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Korean Legal Center The Justice Wn.151 KCI Accredited Journals
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2015.12
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29 - 71 (43page)

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Is the Constitutional Court the Sovereign Institution? - Dissolution of the Unified Progressive Party and Constitutional Identity of the Republic of Korea
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On December 19, 2014, the Constitutional Court of Korea(hereinafter “CCK”) delivered the decision of dissolution of the Unified Progressive Party(hereinafter "UPP"), which is the first in Korean history of constitutional adjudication. At the same time, CCK decided to disqualify five National Assembly members affiliated to the UPP even though there is no statutory basis to entrust it with such a power. The dissolution of a political party concerns the constitutional identity of a polity that declares a constitutionalized democratic republic standing for a pluralized constitutional arrangements.
This essay aims to examine the jurisprudence adopted by CCK in this decision in terms of constitutional ideas enshrined in the constitution and European norms in this field developed by the European Court of Human Rights(hereinafter “ECtHR”) and the Venice Commission. The author tries to criticize the majority opinion of CCK joined by eight justices while basically agrees with the dissenting opinion of the remaining one justice. Above all, the author points out that although the majority opinion recognizes the governing principles in this field, that is, the dissolution of a political party must be a last resort taken only in an exceptional circumstance when the basic order of free democracy would be forced to be in a real danger without such a radical means, the majority justices are so abrupt to declare that the gravity of hostile confrontation between North and South Korea orders them not to apply such principles in a strict manner. Furthermore, it is also criticized that the majority opinion of CCK in this decision appears to distort these principles in that CCK makes the criteria of proportionality lenient in this important decision by not only requiring “social need” rather than “pressing social need” in the jurisprudence of ECtHR but also omitting the requirement of “sufficient imminence” in evaluating the necessity for the society. In conclusion, the author tries to warn CCK that its abrupt decision with no sufficient jurisprudential justifications made in a less justifiable process is nothing but a self-motivated coronation of the sovereign institution, defying the required role perception of the genuine constitutional adjudication body as a self-restrained prudent umpire in the republican form of the government.

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I. 문제의 제기
II. 헌재 결정의 요지
III. 대한민국의 헌법적 정체성과 정당해산심판의 헌법적 위상
IV. 대한민국의 헌법적 정체성에 비추어 본 통진당 해산결정의 문제점
V. 결론
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