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Laws are just words on paper. They are irrelevant without people to follow and enforce them. It is very common for Constitutional laws to be suspended in the
by mywittyname 3y ago
Laws are just words on paper. They are irrelevant without people to follow and enforce them.
It is very common for Constitutional laws to be suspended in the event of war. Even without suspension, all it takes is a leader with enough support to ignore the law.
- Dalewyn 3y agoNearly all Prime Ministers and their cabinets in recent history have suffered overall unpopularity and especially so in anything that might even remotely imply the potential for using the JSDF beyond its nameplate purpose. Which is to say, no: No Japanese leader has had the kind of support necessary to ignore the law.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoA militarily powerful China has also never attacked Taiwan before, so you're on sketchy ground asserting a prediction of popular support based on historical precedent.