課程資訊
課程名稱
中華民國憲法及政府一
The Constitution & Government of the Republic of China (Ⅰ) 
開課學期
113-2 
授課對象
國際關係組  
授課教師
李念祖 
課號
PS1031 
課程識別碼
302 24410 
班次
04 
學分
2.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
必修 
上課時間
星期四8,9(15:30~17:20) 
上課地點
 
備註
本系全英班學生優先選課。
限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限:25人 
 
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課程概述

 

課程目標
 
課程要求
 
預期每週課前或/與課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
 
參考書目
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
  1. 本校尚無訂定 A+ 比例上限。
  2. 本校採用等第制評定成績,學生成績評量辦法中的百分制分數區間與單科成績對照表僅供參考,授課教師可依等第定義調整分數區間。詳見學習評量專區 (連結)。
 
針對學生困難提供學生調整方式
 
上課形式
提供學生彈性出席課程方式
作業繳交方式
學生與授課老師協議改以其他形式呈現
考試形式
書面(口頭)報告取代考試
其他
由師生雙方議定
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
Week 1
20 Feb 2025  As Professor Li is out of town this week, class will start in Week 2 (please still come to the classroom on 20 February). Further arrangements will be made during the semester to make up for his absence. The tentative plan is that from Week 3 through Week 6, the class will last for an additional 30 minutes and end at 18:00.

On 20 February, please meet in the classroom to see Tony Yang. Tony will give an overview of the course and help regroup students into six subgroups of three to four persons each.

In Week 2, Group A is expected to make a 10-minute class presentation on the topic of the parliamentary system, Group B's presentation will be on the presidential system, and Group C, the semi-presidential system.
 
Week 2
27 Feb 2025  Legislative power; law making; no bill of attainder; JYI 782; no ex post facto law; JYI 54; fiscal budget control of law; consent to (or dissent from) key positions nominated by the President; proposal for Constitutional Law amendment; is any part of the Constitution unalterable? JYI 499. 
Week 3
6 Mar 2025  Parliamentary system; presidential system; semi-presidential system; what makes up the Taiwan five-power system? 
Week 4
13 Mar 2025  JYI 627; Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 (1993); Trump v. United States (2024); the scope of presidential immunity; the king can do no wrong? 
Week 5
20 Mar 2025  Judicial independence and stare decisis; judicial review; JYI 9; JYI 371; Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803); are Grand Justices the exclusive interpreters of the Constitution, or simply the final arbiter of constitutional cases and controversies? 
Week 6
27 Mar 2025  What is a court? The structure of the judicial system in Taiwan; the functions of Grand Justices and the Constitutional Court; JYI 86; JYI 392; norm control (abstract review) plus remedying individual human rights? The counter-majoritarian difficulties; JYI 177; JYI 185; JYI 601. 
Week 7
3 Apr 2025  National Holiday observed. 
Week 8
10 Apr 2025  JYI 387; JYI 419; JYI 470; JYI 541; is there a checks-and-balances relation between the President and the Prime Minister? Emergency powers; is Article 43/Additional Article 2, Section 3 relevant? 
Week 9
17 Apr 2025  National policies; binding or non-binding provisions; land ownership; socialist economy or free market economy; national health insurance as a mechanism of social insurance system, or just another tax? JYI 472; JYI 568; National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012). 
Week 10
24 Apr 2025  International law and constitutional law; is international law a binding law in Taiwan? Article 141 of the Taiwan Constitution; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); ICCPR; ICESCR; JYI 329; JYI 549; JYI 708; is international law not a real law? 
Week 11
1 May 2025  Article 23 of the Taiwan Constitution as the key to human rights protection; the doctrine of proportionality; a constraint upon government power over human rights; levels of judicial scrutiny; JYI 649. 
Week 12
8 May 2025  Right to live (the right to life?); JYI 263; JYI 476; TCC Judgment 113-Hsien-Pan-8. 
Week 13
15 May 2025  Personal rights; right to privacy; unenumerated rights; JYI 603; JYI 631; JYI 748; JYI 791; 111-Hsien-Pan-19. 
Week 14
22 May 2025  Freedom of speech; on defamation law; JYI 509; TCC Judgment 112-Hsien-Pan-8; on pornography; JYI 407; JYI 617; JYI 623; on court-ordered apology; freedom of conscience; JYI 656; TCC Judgment 111-Hsien-Pan-2.  
Week 15
29 May 2025  Final presentations. 
Week 16
5 June 2025  Final presentations.