As modern constitutions speak in the name of the people, they contribute to constituting the body politic by making potentially contentious claims about its members’ identity, rights, and duties. Focusing on the North and South Korean Constitutions, this article examines the claims about peoplehood articulated in both texts since their concurrent adoption in 1948. The analysis argues that these claims are irreducible to the North and the South competing over two ideologically antagonistic conceptions of the body politic—a rivalry supposedly embodied in and magnified by their constitutions’ use of differentiated terms to designate the people: inmin and kungmin. Instead, these categories should be seen in light of their synchronic commonalities in the North and South Korean Constitutions as well as diachronic transformations throughout the successive versions of each text, revealing that constituting the people has been less a matter of conflict between both Koreas than within each.

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以人民的名义：对朝鲜和韩国宪法中的人民身份的分歧

由于现代宪法以人民的名义发言，它们通过对其成员的身份、权利和义务提出潜在的有争议的主张，从而有助于构成政治体。本文以朝鲜和韩国宪法为重点，考察了自 1948 年同时通过以来这两个文本中所阐述的关于人性的主张。分析认为，这些主张无法简化为北方和南方在两种意识形态上对立的身体概念上的竞争政治——一种竞争被认为体现在他们的宪法中使用不同的术语来指定人民：inmin 和 kungmin。反而，