...Ralph A. Norem The Chinese constitution: a study of forty years of constitution-making in China . By Pan Wei-tung . Washington, D. C : Institute of Chinese Culture , 1946 . xi, 327 p. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 87 The Chinese...

...John M. Maki Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 1 Robert Ward's article, “The Commission on the Constitution and Prospects for Constitutional Change in Japan,” appears on pp. 401–429. 2 The Commission's Secretariat also published more than a hundred...

... constitution. Among these were: national emergencies and emergency powers, political parties, elections, and national referenda. A proposal that it be constitutionally required that the internal organization and functioning of political parties accord with democratic principles gained wide support. Suggestions...

... of the Association, to meet with them at their March 28,1955 meeting in Washington, D. C , and to discuss the possibility of expanding the Association's area of interest to include South Asia. As a result of this meeting the Directors decided to propose amendments to the Constitution at the next meeting which would...

... to reevaluate certain premises on the early nature of parliamentary government under the Meiji Constitution. To facilitate the discussion, however, we should first present the traditional views on the development of parliamentary government prior to and soon after the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution...

...Stanley A. Kochanek India's Constitution . By M. V. Pylee . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1962 . vii , 396 . Maps. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 146 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES planned programs presented intelligently by properly trained...

... that in 1947 the prerogative of determining questions of constitutionality shifted from the oligarchy to the courts. At the same time, the courts replaced professors as authoritative expounders of the Constitution. Only two pieces of legislation have been found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court...

...George H. Gadbois, Jr A Comparative Study of the Indian Constitution . By Sirdar Dhirendra Kumar Sen . New Delhi : David McKay Company , 1966 – 1967 . Two Volumes. Vol. I : xxii , 382 pp. Vol. II: xlvi , 743 pp. Appendices, Index, Tables. Vol. I $7.50, Vol. II $8.75. Copyright ©...

...Theodore McNelly Court and Constitution in Japan; Selected Supreme Court Decisions, 1948–60 . By John M. Maki . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1964 . xlvi, 445 . Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $9.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 620 JOURNAL...

... to preserve general peace. This book also clearly reveals the impressive and enormous structure of law that has been erected on the foundation of the constitution. Throughout the first volume there are hundreds of references to laws involving such widely disparate but constitutionally important matters...

...Myron Weiner Union-State Relations In India . By K. Santhanam . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . Under the auspices of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, viii, 71 . $3.25. A Comparative Study of the Indian Constitution. Vol. I: General Principles...

...Hyman Kublin The Making of the Meiji Constitution, the Oligarchs and the Constitutional Development of Japan, 1868–1891 . By George M. Beckmann . Lawrence, Kansas : University of Kansas Press , 1957 . 158 , Bibliography, Index. Cloth: $3.00; paper: $2.50. Copyright © The Association...

...Norman D. Palmer The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation . By Granville Austin . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1966 . xvii, 390 pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $7.20. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 719 It is quite likely...

...Karl von Vorys Public Opinion and Constitution Making in Pakistan 1958–1962 . By Edgar A. and Kathryn R. Schuler . East Lansing : Michigan State University Press , 1967 . 286 pp. Appendices, Index. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 426 JOURNAL...

...Sumit Ganguly Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India . By Walter Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle . London : C. Hurst and Company , 2019 . xxiv, 405 pp. ISBN: 9781787380257 . India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy . By Madhav...

...William R. Roff An Introduction to the Constitution of Malaysia . By Tan Sri Mohamed Suffian Bin Hashim . Kuala Lumpur : Government Printer , 1972 . xxv, 332 pp. Ms. 4.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 558 whereas for the years before 1770 historians...

...A. J. Harding The Constitution of Malaysia: Its Development, 1957–1977 . Edited by Tun Mohamed Suffian , H. P. Lee , and F. A. Trindade . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1978 . xxiii, 425 pp. Tables, Index. $26.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980...

...Willard H. Elsbree The Constitution of Malaysia . By L. A. Sheridan and Harry E. Groves . Dobbs Ferry, New York : Oceana Publications , 1967 . xxxiv, 398 pp. Index. $15.00. BOOK REVIEWS 191 established, the Burmese Independence Army disbanded and was replaced by the more disciplined...

... determined the limits beyond which liberal constitutionalism could not venture so long as the Meiji Constitution prevailed. To have moved out beyond these boundaries would have compelled constitutional theorists to abandon their attachments to Emperor, Constitution and tradition, in short, to become...

...Kyu Hyun Kim The Meiji Constitution: The Japanese Experience of the West and the Shaping of the Modern State . By Takii Kazuhiro . Translated by David Noble . Tokyo : International House of Japan , 2007 . xix , 180 pp. ¥1,905. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...