Cultural Interpretation On The Outline Of Imperial Constitution

The constitutional movement in the modern China begins with the late Ching Dynasty. The making of the Outline of Imperial Constitution, which is one of the fruits of the constitutional movement in the late Ching Dynasty, marks the great change in Chinese constitutional culture from the enlightenment of the ideas to the tentative try of the system. It not only means a huge amount of wealth for the later generations, but also plays an important role in the history of Chinese constitutionalism. However, most of works and articles in legal history used to describe the Outline of Imperial Constitution with bogus constitutionalism for some reasons. The Outline of Imperial Constitution really failed in the establishment of political system, but succeeded in the turn and transmission of the culture. It symbolizes the cultural beginning from tradition to modern times. In order to probe a new ruling means, the ruling class begins to carry out constitutional government without the thought of deceiving people. The rulers made the decision, which is a kind of higher reform after the Westernization Movement and the Genxin new policies, on the basis of the whole political situation and the ruling crisis. The dominant persons want to control the regime through a slow course of self-remaking and self-perfecting. We can not grasp the today and look forward to the future until we understand our history deeply. Every constitution can not exist without the cultural body, and all reflects the historical and cultural tradition deeply. So does every constitutional movement. Therefore, by means of the study of legal culture on the Outline of Imperial Constitution and its related materials, the author wants to provide much necessary reference and useful research resource for the constructional movement of China on the present age.