‘지방분권형’ 헌법 개정과 지방정치대표체 모델 연구

This study suggests some principles for the direction of any future constitutional revision beyond the power structure issues on which the existing attempts to revise the Constitution have been focused and proposes a regional political representative system model in accordance with such principles. Thus, this paper brings up the necessity of a constitutional revision for 'local decentralization' and presents civic democracy including the protection and expansion of basic human rights as a fundamental principle for the future constitutional revision, consensus democracy embracing the power structure and election system that make it possible to reach an agreement systematically, and local democracy implementing local decentralization and regional representative system. Most researches advocating a constitutional revision for local decentralization argue that a regional representative upper chamber should be established in the National Assembly. Thus, this study proposes 'an upper house outside the legislature' composed of the delegates of local governments and councils by revising the German Bundesrat model. This upper house model will have an effect on 'enforcing systematically' coordinations and agreements of political and local interests between local and local governments as well as central and local governments. It is necessary to have more interest in and conduct further research on the German Bundesrat model as an institutional apparatus to realize the principles of consensus democracy and local democracy.