Under the representative democracy of the Republic of Korea, the National Assembly is supposed to play a major role in making legislation. This paper addresses the issue of whether the National Assembly has really played a major role in the law-making process in Korea throughout 60 years of history of the Government. In order to see how the National Assembly performed its legislative function throughout 60 years, this paper examines what the National Assembly did under each Republic(Korea is under the sixth Republic). The number of bills proposed by members of the National Assembly is compared with the number of bills proposed by the President of the Government. And the percentage of bills that were proposed by members and passed the National Assembly among the total number of bills that became law is also examined to see how actively members conducted their legislative function. This paper found out that the legislative performance of the National Assembly depends largely on the interaction between the National Assembly and the Chief Executive. When the national legislature interacted with the executive branch on an equal basis, in other words, when the principle of the separation of power was well observed, the legislative performance by the National Assembly was moderately good. This was true during the beginning several years of the first and third Republic. On the other hands, when the President predominated over the National Assembly under the authoritarian regime, the legislative performance of the National Assembly was reduced to the minimum. This was true during the fourth and fifth Republic. It is fortunate that the National Assembly has begun to be actively engaged in performing its legislative function since the beginning of the sixth Republic under the current Constitution. Especially, since the 15th National Assembly in 1996, members has started to show their strong interest in the legislative activity. During the 17th Assembly from 2004 to 2008, the National Assembly prevailed over the executive branch, as far as law-making is concerned. This was a dramatic change from the past.
목차
Ⅰ. 들어가며 Ⅱ. 국회입법 60년의 평가 1. 국회의 공화국별ㆍ대별 구분 2. 국회 입법에 대한 개괄적 검토 3. 공화국별 국회입법에 대한 평가 Ⅲ. 국회입법의 향후과제 1. 의원입법의 준비와 발의 단계에서의 과제 2. 법률안 심의단계에서의 과제 3. 입법이후의 과제 Ⅳ. 맺는말 <참고문헌>
키워드
legislationgovernment-led legislationmembers-led legislationdeliberation of bills
저자
임종훈 [ Lim, Jong-Hoon | 홍익대 법과대학 교수(Prof., College of Law, Hongik Univ.) ]
오늘날 대륙법계 국가는 물론 영미법계 국가에서도 제정법의 중요성이 점증하고 있음에도 불구하고 그동안 법학의 주된 관심은 해석법학에 머무르고 있는 것이 현실이다. 같은 맥락에서 법률전문가들도 한결 같이 법의 해석·적용에만 천착하고 있을 뿐이며 해석·적용의 전제가 되는 입법 자체에 대하여 관심과 소양을 가지고 있는 전문가는 찾아보기 힘든 실정이다. 국민의 여론을 충실히 반영하면서도 형평성과 체계성·조화성 등을 고루 갖추어 헌법과 입법원칙에 부합하는 입법이 적시에 이루어진다면 불필요한 법적 분쟁을 예방하고 국민의 법 생활을 윤택하게 하며 법치주의의 성공적인 구현에 크게 기여할 수 있을 것이다. 입법학회는 이러한 전제 하에 올바른 입법을 위한 이론적 토대를 마련하기 위한 학문적 탐구를 진행하고자 함.