근대 입헌주의의 성립과 현대 사회국가적 헌법의 특징

Abstract

Where to find the origin of constitution called Contemporary Social State Constitution today, its origin is the constitutionalism. When looking back the history of mankind, the modern constitutionalism has still the significant meaning in Contemporary Social State Constitution on which its development is based today in that the freedom and the rights of people started to be guaranteed as the modern constitutionalism was established in the era when monarch used to exercise tyrannical sovereignty for a long time. Today, the constitution holding the status of highest law in the country regulates to restrict the arbitrary exercise of sovereignty through separation of power as a mechanism for guaranteeing the rights of the people and realizing them, and it still has the regulatory meaning in these days in that the starting point is the modern constituionalism constitution. Because the country in which the basic rights are guaranteed by constitution is often called the constitutional state, the constitutionalism and the constitutional state are inseparable. Modern constitutionalism presupposes modernity in terms of time, but it did not end in modern times, and its normative contents are still alive in today's Contemporary Social State Constitution. This study reviews the establishment of modern constitutionalism constitution from this view, and also examines how the normative contents are transformed and applied in Today’s Contemporary Social State Constitution. The results to compare Contemporary Social State Constitution with constitutionalism show, first, change from a night view state to a social state, second, substantialization of National Sovereignty, third, strengthening social rights guaranteeing from guaranteeing freedom, fourth, transition from formal rule of law to practical rule of law, fifth, securing the highest norm of the constitution through the constitution trial system. In comparison with modern constitutionalism, the normative contents of modern constitutionalism still have the effective meaning in Contemporary Social State Constitution, but it is shown as a characteristic of the Contemporary Social State Constitution. Like this, because the normative contents of constitutionalism still function as a key content in Contemporary Social State Constitution as well, it is said that the comparison of modern constitutionalism and Contemporary Social State Constitution is significant.