- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
Abbreviations and
J apanese Terms - Introduction: “A New Order of Things”
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1 “Negotiated Surrender”:A merican Planning and Occupation -
2 “This Fundamental Problem”:M acA rthur SavesH irohito -
3 “In Good Faith”:J apan Considers Constitutional Reform -
4 “A Rational Way”:K onoe andM atsumoto on Constitutional Reform -
5 “Only as a Last Resort”: TheA mericans Take Over -
6 “A Liberal and Enlightened Constitution”: The Scap Model -
7 “A Very Serious Matter”: The Cabinet's Initial Reactions -
8 “Do Your Best”: The Marathon Meeting -
9 “Grave Danger”: The Allies ChallengeM acA rthur -
10 “Seize This Opportunity”: Reworking the March 6 Draft -
11 “No Choice But to Abide”: The Privy Council and Bureaucrats Prepare - Transforming a Draft into a Constitution
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12 “Along Democratic and Peace‐Loving Lines”:Y oshida Presents His Draft -
13 “Free and Untrammeled Debate”: The Emperor's Prerogatives -
14 “Fervent Hopes”: Pacifism and Human Rights -
15 “Complex andL abyrinthine”: The Structure of Government -
16 “Fresh Trouble”: The House Subcommittee Frames Amendments -
17 “Fundamental Principles of Democracy”: Human Rights and Imperial Property -
18 “Sincere and Steady Efforts”: Denouement -
19 “Last Service to the Fatherland”: The House of Peers Addresses Constitutional Revision -
20 “A Borrowed Suit”: Peers Accept the Inevitable -
21 “Broaden and Deepen the Debate”: Fifty Years Without Revision - Conclusion
- Bibliography
- index
“A Liberal and Enlightened Constitution”: The Scap Model
“A Liberal and Enlightened Constitution”: The Scap Model
- Chapter:
- (p.93) 6 “A Liberal and Enlightened Constitution”: The Scap Model
- Source:
- Partners for Democracy
- Author(s):
Ray A. Moore
Donald L. Robinson (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Shows how General MacArthur, early in February 1946, seized on a “scoop” by the newspaper Mainichi that convinced him that the Japanese cabinet was making little headway toward revising the Constitution. It recounts how a small group of officers at Government Section, under the leadership of General Whitney, Colonel Kades and Commander Hussey, drafted a model constitution for Japan in a week's time. Built on the parliamentary model, it placed sovereignty in the people, kept the emperor as a “symbol” of the nation, banned war and armed forces, and set forth a new bill of rights. The chapter concludes with the dramatic presentation of the draft to stunned representatives of the Japanese cabinet on Wednesday, February 13.
Keywords: bill of rights, emperor as symbol Courtney Whitney, A. Rodman Hussey, Charles Kades, parliamentary model, revised constitution, the Mainichi scoop the SCAP model
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
Abbreviations and
J apanese Terms - Introduction: “A New Order of Things”
-
1 “Negotiated Surrender”:A merican Planning and Occupation -
2 “This Fundamental Problem”:M acA rthur SavesH irohito -
3 “In Good Faith”:J apan Considers Constitutional Reform -
4 “A Rational Way”:K onoe andM atsumoto on Constitutional Reform -
5 “Only as a Last Resort”: TheA mericans Take Over -
6 “A Liberal and Enlightened Constitution”: The Scap Model -
7 “A Very Serious Matter”: The Cabinet's Initial Reactions -
8 “Do Your Best”: The Marathon Meeting -
9 “Grave Danger”: The Allies ChallengeM acA rthur -
10 “Seize This Opportunity”: Reworking the March 6 Draft -
11 “No Choice But to Abide”: The Privy Council and Bureaucrats Prepare - Transforming a Draft into a Constitution
-
12 “Along Democratic and Peace‐Loving Lines”:Y oshida Presents His Draft -
13 “Free and Untrammeled Debate”: The Emperor's Prerogatives -
14 “Fervent Hopes”: Pacifism and Human Rights -
15 “Complex andL abyrinthine”: The Structure of Government -
16 “Fresh Trouble”: The House Subcommittee Frames Amendments -
17 “Fundamental Principles of Democracy”: Human Rights and Imperial Property -
18 “Sincere and Steady Efforts”: Denouement -
19 “Last Service to the Fatherland”: The House of Peers Addresses Constitutional Revision -
20 “A Borrowed Suit”: Peers Accept the Inevitable -
21 “Broaden and Deepen the Debate”: Fifty Years Without Revision - Conclusion
- Bibliography
- index
