자유민주주의의 정상화문제(II) -참여자의 관점-

My aim in this article is to review the constitutional history of the Republic of Korea for the past 60 years from 1948. I begin with a theoretical distinction between the obedience-paradigm and the normalization-paradigm in describing constitutional history of Liberal Democracy. Based upon a more political and dynamic understanding of Liberal Democracy, I justify that the latter is more applicable than the former. With the normalization schema in mind, I attempt a newer periodization of Korean Constitutional history; 1948-1952, 1952-1960, 1960-1971, 1971-1987, 1987-1997, 1997-present. The rest three chapters that follow the periodization are about very basic elements of the constitutional politics which proclaim the motto of Liberal Democracy; ① the expansion and institutionalization of tolerance ② the construction of the democratic structure of political responsibility ③ the education of constitutional citizens who can lead the normalization process of Liberal Democracy in Korea.