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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20221204-001515-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-constitutions-hollow-promise/ A Constitution’s Hollow Promise - Taiwan’s Stalled Constitutional Reform and Its (Absent) Sovereignty Kuo, Ming-Sung eng 2022-12-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 constitutional amendment Taiwan Voting Age Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 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.