nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221204-001515-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221203s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221204-001515-0 doi eng 342 23 Kuo, Ming-Sung Author aut A Constitution’s Hollow Promise - Taiwan’s Stalled Constitutional Reform and Its (Absent) Sovereignty Kuo, Ming-Sung Verfassungsblog 2022-12-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 26 November 2022, the Taiwanese people had their authentic constitutional voice heard for the first time in history by casting votes in a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would lower the age of voting from 20 to 18, and that of candidacy from 23 to 18 except as otherwise provided by the Constitution or legislation.  Given that Taiwan’s current Constitution was adopted by a Constituent National Assembly in China in 1946 when Japan still held sovereignty over Taiwan de jure and all the previous constitutional amendments were adopted without receiving direct approval from the Taiwanese people, the holding of referendum itself is historic.  Yet, this latest round of constitutional reform on Taiwan’s road towards an ever more democratic politics ends up as a damp squib. CC BY-SA 4.0 constitutional amendment Taiwan Voting Age Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-constitutions-hollow-promise/ raw object