민주공화국의 입헌정치에 있어서 헌법교육/민주시민교육: 그 특정한 위상의 규명과 추진 방안의 제안

Abstract

In this article I make the most appropriate definition of constitutional education and democratic-civic education based on the their core concepts globally accepted and draw out a specific task of constitutional education in this age that the whole people of DaeHanMinKook (Republic of Corea) should embody ordinarily the consciousness of the Corean Constitution as a central nervous system of the state, taking into notice that the driving force of 2016/17 Candlelight Civic Revolution was operating according to the paradigm of the constitutional principle and order of the mutual response between the exercise of the sovereignty of the sovereign and the constitutional reaction of the constitutional organs. As a result of this revolution we the Corean people must confront with the political burden to create a national consensus on the indicator image of “a nation as a nation proper”, if we should not only clean up the deep-rooted evils, but also never regress backward to the past old age, newly building such a nation as a nation proper. But I draw a definite conclusion from the situation analysis that the driving force and the indicator image of the post-candle nation to be newly built as a nation proper has been already embedded in the process of the Candlelight Civic Revolution as an inner-constitutional, procedural revolution proceeding in the mode of thoroughly constitutional exercise of the sovereign right just from its beginning. Namely, the Candlelight Civic Revolution saved enormously the exhausting work of discussing about indicator image and creating a national consensus on the new Corea, as it has showed up the typical and ideal mode of activating the inner- constitutional potentiality directing toward the operation of nation-level democracy and the republican solidarity between state and citizens through maximizing the sensitivity of the sovereign equipped in the current Constitution. That is, the force of the sovereign for the post-candlelight new Corea has been already charged through the mutual cooperation of the sovereignty exercise and the constitutional organs according to the Corean constitutional order, so that the 10th at now and the 11th Corean Constitution coming soon as its would-be reform plan that will strengthen the democratic identity and the republican polity should and must give the longer lasting long-term indicator image for the state-reform and national action to which the whole Corean people will agree. Furthermore, a good-will competition will take place in the constitutional politics crossing over all political parties and the civil society to achieve the national object written in the Corean Constitution securing the undeniable legitimacy and general agreement among the Corean people. Just at this point, the distinguished status of the constitutional education already done must be magnified. Not being limited in only one chapter of the social studies, the constitutional education should be given the distinguished task to sustain and develop the sovereignty-sensitivity, namely, the conviction “This nation is My nation.”, and civic competency of the sovereign in the real-time to heighten the effectiveness of the democratic politics and make clear the republican polity. That is to say, the strengthening of the constitutional education is the founding work for the democratic republic to build the core-axis concentrating the sovereign driving all national politics forward in the future. A constitutional politics by the sovereign democratic citizens has to be operated fully crossing over the political society and the civil society in the whole, as strengthening the constitutional education and making ordinary the constitutional consciousness in all spheres of life and activity all over politics, economy, society, culture as well as national security, especially in the all school-in and school-out educational fields. The constitutional education is a constant cultivating field of constitutional consciousness as the political central nervous system of the Republic of Corea communicating and expressing the constitutional values and the democratic competency of the sovereign of the democratic republic. Thus, the sovereignty-sensitivity incorporating the conviction that I have rights to take part in the democratic process of power- management and competencies to realize the constitutional values is the highest level of the subjective state. From such conviction on, I propose diverse promotion- plans for the constitutional education as a basic and common educational subject of the democratic-civic education and suggest “A Law for Promoting Constitutional and Democratic-Civic Education and Supporting the Establishment of Center for Constitution and Democracy” aiding such efforts in all-encompassing way.