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The End Of The Qing Dynasty Constituent Study

Posted on:2009-04-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S L ShaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360245977105Subject:Constitution and Administrative Law
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As the first time political and legal nature of the modern movement in the history of our country, Late Qing Dynasty constitutional guided and inspirited China's legal system reform movement. The Constitutional Movement are closely linked the prevailing social realities. The development of commodity economy provided the economic base for the constitutional activities. Modern democratic constitutional ideas provided the spiritual driving force for the constitutional activities. The real crisis of the late Qing Dynasty in the objective promoted the constitutional activities. After the Enlightenment, brewing, development the three stages of preparation, the Qing government finally implemented the movement. The first, they sent minister 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, government established a constitutional provision investigation museum, established a " Zizheng Yuan Chapter ". Then, when conditions of relatively matured, they promulgated the "Qinding Xianfa Dagang" which is an inter-era significance of the constitutional legal document. Subsequently, the Qing government also carried out a series of activities, such as the establishment of Zizheng Yuan and the Council, and formed a "royal cabinet", to save the critical situation. But it was too late, it had been unable to return to days. After published the "major tenet 19 ", the Wuchang Uprising broke out. The constitutional movement has come to an end. The reason of the failure of the Constitutional Movement was the Qing government no good to resolve a basic contradiction. But we must also note that though the movement failed, it was the development of constitutional democracy, enlightened a lot of people, and promoted China's ideological and constitutional development. The constitutional development must be in connection with reality and in line with national conditions to avoid a utilitarian. In this way, we can avoid taking some detours.
Keywords/Search Tags:Late Qing Dynasty, Constitutionalism, Constituent, Democracy
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