Table of Contents Preface I. Introduction 1 II. Leading Cases 1. Democratization No. 261 (Terms of Office of the First Congress Members Case) 9 2. Limits on the Power to Amend the Constitution No. 499 (Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Case) 15 3. The Power to Introduce Statutory Bills to the Legislative Yuan No. 3 (The Control Yuan’s Power to Introduce Statutory Bills Case) 43 No. 175 (The Judicial Yuan’s Power to Introduce Statutory Bills Case) 47 4. Judicial Independence No. 86 (Separation of the Judicial and the Prosecutorial Institutions Case) 51 5. Jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court No. 2 (Government-Petitioned Uniform Interpretation Case) 53 No. 371 (Judges’ Petition for Constitutional Review of Statutes Case) 55 6. Gender Equality No. 365 (Fathers’ Preferred Parental Rights Case) 59 No. 728 (Qualifications for Successors of Ancestor Worship Guilds Case) 63 7. Freedom of Assembly No. 445 (Prior Restraint on the Freedom of Assembly Case) 69 8. Free Speech No. 744 (Prior Restraint on Commercial Speech Case) 103 9. Freedom of Secrecy of Correspondence No. 631 (Issuance of Communications Surveillance Warrants Case) 111 10. Right to Property No. 400 (Public Easements on and Taking of Privately-Owned Existing Roads Case) 121 No. 440 (Taking without Compensation of the Underground Strata of Private Lands Case) 127 11. Right to Work No. 584 (Permanent Disqualification of Taxi Drivers Case) 131 No. 749 (Temporary Disqualification of Taxi Drivers Case) 139 12. Right to Judicial Remedy No. 736 (Public School Teachers’ Right to Judicial Remedy Against Infringements by Schools Case) 151 No. 752 (A Defendant’s Right to Appeal a Higher Court Guilty Decision Reversing a Lower Court Not-Guilty Decision Case) 159 13. Unenumerated Constitutional Rights No. 603 (Mandatory Fingerprinting for Identity Cards Case) 169 No. 748 (Same-Sex Marriage Case) 187 Appendix Constitution 203 Additional Articles of the Constitution 239 Judicial Yuan Organization Act (Excerpt) 251 Constitutional Court Procedure Act 255 Justices of the Constitutional Court 267 Complete Lists of J.Y. Interpretations 313 Translators and Editors of the Leading Cases 315 Index Subject Index 319 Case Index 323
