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Constitutional Preparation Study In The Late Qing

Posted on:2011-10-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D H ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360332955517Subject:Legal history
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Thoughts are the forerunner of political changes. In the context of the conflict of Sino-western culture and the growing crisis of Chinese nation, lots of people with breadth of vision put forward the question of changing autocratic monarchy, and formed a great social trend of thoughts. The birth and development of constitutionalism experienced Opium War,The Reform Movement,The Constitutional Reform and Modernization of 1898,Xinzheng in the late Qing.After the enlightenment, brewing, development, and finally from 1905, the Qing government formally introduced a top-down constitutionalism movement. The first, they sent five ministers to visit all the constitutional system in Western countries, and learned the advanced experience of countries. After held a series of meetings to discuss drawing up a new constitution and listened the views of the Du Fu. Bureaucracy reform to start from, then the Qing government set up a constitutional Cataloging Museum, established a "charter of the Consulting Department", the specialized activities of the constitutional plan. Political Consultative Council was established and the Advisory Council, composed of a "royal cabinet," Then, when conditions of relatively matured, they promulgated the"QindingXianfa Dagang "which is an inter-era significance of the constitutional legal document. Subsequently, the Qing government also carried out a series of activities to save the critical situation. But it was too late; it had been unable to return to days. The revolution breaking out all over, the Qing government had no control. In the end, the collapse of the situation forced the Qing government dished out "constitutional major tenets of 19." After the Wuchang Uprising broke out, the constitutional movement also will come to an end.The constitutionalism is the result of the western social history and development process in several thousand years, is the root plant in traditional soil of western culture. Chinese traditional culture and Western culture in the formation mechanism of the existence of constitutional differences, Established to recognize the "evil human nature", "liberal" based on "spontaneous evolution of type" Western constitutional models and based on the "Goodness of Nature", "State supreme, collective" based on "the Government to promote Type "constitutional model fundamental difference between a successful transplant from Western constitutional models, we must pay attention to localization of its transformation, its integration into the local culture while in China reflects the essence of modern Western constitutionalism. Notice that we have to draw the constitutional transplantation and the spirit and philosophy, instead of copying the West, existing constitutional system. So what is the correct treatment of Chinese Traditional and Western constitutional relationship between the experience of the natural focus of our concern. Solution to this problem should be established on the basis of national traditions on the constitutional model of selective and look for our national traditions and Western constitutional experience of the "meeting point", that is a traditional Chinese culture to explore the constitutional experience of receiving foreign or foreign constitutional experience into our national possible ways of traditional culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Late Qing, Constitutional Preparation, Traditional Culture, Western Constitutionalism
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