One Council Two Constitutional Courts

This chapter reduces a deficit about the oldest post-WWII constitutional court, the Council of Grand Justices, and to revisit the Second Wave of Global Development of Judicial Powers by fleshing out the Greater China's greater constitutional legacies. Between 1948 and 2021, the Council of Grand Justices made a total of 813 interpretations starting in the city of Nanjing, then Taipei. It proposes a holistic view of Council of Grand Justices as comprising two constitutional courts: China's Constitutional Court and Taiwan's Constitutional Court. The moment came in 1992 when the political tide picked up speed amidst the global wave of democratization, the Republic of China constitution was amended to mandate the Council of Grand Justices to formulate ad hoc constitutional tribunal to try cases involving the dissolution of unconstitutionally organized political parties.