Constitution, constitutionalism, and effectiveness in China: Illations about traditional culture, political practices, and constitutionalist speech in the Chinese context

• Autor(a) principal: Coelho, Diva Julia Sousa da Cunha Safe
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Coelho, Saulo de Oliveira Pinto, Diniz, Ricardo Martins Spindola
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/direito/article/view/53275
• topic: Chinese constitutionalism. Fundamental-human rights. Comparative law. Constitutional culture. China.; Direito; Direito Constitucional Comparado; Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos; Constitucionalismo chinês. Direitos humano-fundamentais. Direito comparado. Cultura constitucional. China.

The present work constructs a comparison between the official nomological discourse of the Chinese Constitution in force and the different approaches about the meaning of the Constitution and of fundamental-human rights developed by the Chinese constitutional scholars. Its main methodological strategy is to configure a sampling from the data collected from the Chinese legal literature related to its constitutional law and fundamental-human rights. Moreover, the analysis is incremented through a reflection regarding the influence of the different Chinese political and cultural traditions in the equally distinct perspectives of its contemporary constitutionalism. As its main results it is verified not only the existence of conflicting perspectives in Chinese constitutional culture, but a majoritarian presence of pragmatical and utilitarian approaches to the discourse of fundamental-human rights as well, and also a primacy of political and economic dynamics in comparison to the constitutional guideposts, which still have a low binding or guiding power.