@article{oai:air.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001676,
 author = {立花, 希一 and TACHIBANA, Kiichi},
 journal = {秋田大学教育文化学部研究紀要 人文科学・社会科学},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This paper has two aims. The first is to warn Japan against making the same mistakes made by the Israelites of ancient
Israel in their choice of government. After the Exodus, because the people were sovereign, they initially had the opportunity
to choose their form of government using democratic procedures. The government they chose, however, was
anti-democratic theocracy, and they eventually abandoned their popular sovereignty. Their choice, therefore, may be described
as democratic suicide.
The second aim of the paper is to integrate a desirable theory of sovereignty with Popper's theory of democracy in
which all kinds of (unchecked) sovereignty are rejected. The integrated theory of democracy proposed in this paper will
be suitable for the idea of democracy as popular sovereignty in Japan, which is prescribed in the current Japanese constitution
(Minshushugi in the sense of Kokumin-shuken or Shuken-zaimin).},
 pages = {33--44},
 title = {民主主義の自殺行為},
 volume = {64},
 year = {2009}
}