Wu Jinglian And The Law-protecting Movement

Wu Jinglian is a renowned congress leader of the Law-protecting Movement. He devoted himself to the development of the Law-protecting Movement and the Constitute-establishing with parliament. But he also was utterly discredited because of insisting on Law-protecting Movement.This article approaches the process of Wu's Law-protecting to the south, the goal and reason of Wu's military government's reorganization, promoting the Congress to draw up a constitution in Guangdong, Wu'organizing the Congress a great-distance migration, the reason for change from Wu's Law-protecting to Law-breaking, according to both the foundation of prodecessors'research achievement and the analysis of massive materials. In this way, we could have a fair and objective discussion about Wu Jinglian in the hope of getting a deeper research. This article will take a discussion from four aspects.The first chapter discusses the reason and the process of Wu Jinglian's Law-protecting to the south. Duan Qirui incited the military governor regiment to exert pressure to the Congress, in that case, the congress assemblyman resigned one after another, Wu Jinglian took up the post of the speaker of the House of Representatives, when the congress was in dire peril. After Zhangxun forced Li Yuanhong to dismiss the congress, Wu Jinglian responded to Sun, Yat-sen's call and led the which marked the start of the congress Law-protecting.The second chapter discusses mainly the relationship between Wu Jinglian and the military government's reorganization and analysed both the reason of the first reorganization of Wu Jinglian and his role in the reorganization. When Wu Jinglian discowed that the gui clique atternpted to squeeze Sun, Yat-Sen out and dominated exclusively the military government, he tried his best to remedy. In order to oppose both collusion between the south sacrifice of the congress, Wu Jinglian set off an agitation of the second reorganization of military government.The third chapter discusses mainly Wu Jinglian's important contribution to the convening of the formal parliament in Guangzhou. He regarded the right of constitution of the congress assemblyman and organized the congress assemblymen many times for discussion constitution in Guangdong province. In order to resist the betrayal of the congress, which would be carried out by the military government headed by Wu Jinglian, and defended the dignity and authority of the congress; Wu Jinglian led the congress assemblymen to migrate the congress in a great distance.The fourth chapter discusses mainly the reason and process of change from Wu Jinglian's Law-protecting to Law-breaking, and analyzes the reason for relationship-breaking between Wu Jinglian and Sun Yat-Sen,pointed out that the division have an important influence on th ideological change of Wu Jinglian.Wu Jinglian and zhi clique cooperated to restore legally constituted authority ,and stepped into a way of helping Caokun to get elected by bribery.Ptactising bribery at the election caused Wu Jinglian to lose all standing and reputation, on the other hand,the congress suffered a disastrous decline in the mind of the populace.