「憲法の再検討規定に関する極東委員会決定」

 Provisions for the Review of a New Japanese Constitution         [FEC Policy Decision, Octorber 17, 1946]
  1. The new constitution, which will in due season after promulgation become the legal successor of the present constitution with such changes as have been made or may be made as a result of consideration and policy decision of the Far Eastern Commission, shall be subject to further review by the Diet and the Far Eastern Commission in terms of the following paragraph.
 
  1. In order that the Japanese people may have an opportunity, after the new constitution goes into effect, to reconsider it in the light of the experience of its working, and in order that the Far Eastern Commission may satisfy itself that the constitution fulfills the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and other controlling documents, the Commission decides as a matter of policy that, not sooner than one year and not later than two years after it goes into effect, the situation with respect to the new constitution should be reviewed by the Diet.  Without prejudice to the continuing jurisdiction of the Far Eastern Commission at any time, the Commission shall also review the constitution within this same period.  The Far Eastern Commission, in determining whether the Japanese constitution is an expression of the free will of the Japanese people, may require a referendum or some other appropriate procedure for ascertaining Japanese opinion with respect to the constitution.
「資料 日本国憲法1 1945−1949」三省堂:1986による
(小生、英語が大の苦手です。どなたか、これに和訳をつけていただけませんか)
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