Key themes in Vietnam's constitutions and constitutional debates -- The 1946 constitution : a charter for independence and unity -- The 1959 constitution : a charter for socialism in the North -- The 1980 constitution : a charter for reunification under socialism -- The 1992 constitution : a charter for renovation (doi moi) -- Revising the 1992 constitution : debates and decisions after fifteen years of renovation (doi moi) -- Implementing constitutional guarantees : the problem of associational rights -- The problem of judicial independence in a party-dominated state -- Enforcing the constitution : the debate over 'constitutional protection' and a constitutional court -- Afterword : the future of the Vietnamese constitution
Summary
This text examines constitutional debate and development in one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing societies in Asia, and will be of use to scholars and students of comparative constitutional law and practitioners interested in Vietnam and Southeast Asia
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index
