The Historical Origin of Japanese Constitution
Respect for basic human rights is a manifestation of liberalism. First of all, it is of great significance to liberate the people oppressed by the state. The third chapter lists the basic human rights. This chapter lists the human rights guaranteed by the Constitution. In addition to the rights expressly stipulated, there are also human rights recognized in case law. (right to know, privacy, etc. In order to avoid the arbitrary exercise of power and suppress individual human rights, the ruling institutions are set to zero. In order not to destroy individuals, the Constitution is based on the principle of liberalism. Respect for basic human rights, in the old days, was to liberate people's thoughts and activities as much as possible, which was a political idea based on this liberalism. As the basic idea of politics, liberalism means freedom from oppression on the basis of state power. In order to show this freedom from the state, many people call it constitutionalism, which is produced on the premise of distrust of state power. In the process of realizing democratic politics, the coercion of state power is ruled out. Economically speaking, it is a policy of maintaining freedom; In addition, it is precisely because liberalism aims at ensuring individual happiness that liberalism is used to decide the direction that the country should take as individuals become collectives. In the Japanese Constitution, the provisions of state organization and the consideration of state sovereignty are interrelated and follow liberalism. In modern times, liberalism has been revised by social rights (income redistribution) because of the disparity between the rich and the poor caused by the initial implementation of the free economic policy. In addition, with modern democracy strongly relying on the protection of individual freedom, the importance of liberalism has increased rapidly. In particular, the birth of the German Nazi Party in democracy has done great harm and made the world understand that a system that cannot guarantee national freedom cannot be called democracy. Liberalism and democracy have become inseparable and become constitutional democracy (liberal democracy). Even in Japan's constitution, when individual freedom conflicts with the state, freedom takes precedence.