The Thinking Establishing A Constitution Of The Intelligentsia Before Anti-japanese War In Ten Years

The democratic constitutional movement before the Anti-Japanese War acted as alink between the past and the future in the establishment of constitutional governmentin the period of the Republic China. As the participation of the main body, theintelligentsia’s exploration and pursuit of constitutionalism opened up a new path topromote the progress of the constitutional politics of China. Although the process wasfull of tortuous,and there was a great contrast between the direct effect and theexpectations of the people,but it had profoundly affected the construction of thedemocratic politics.The democratic process of China has been in progress,so theintelligentsia’s contributions can not be ignored.The paper aims at a systematic study of thinking of the constitutional issues ofthe intelligentsia, exploring the change of the intelligentsia’s own spiritual path in thespecial background of the central government was faced with trouble s at home andaggression from abroad.The paper analyzes the intelligentsia’s thinking of theconstitutional issues in a political landscape and introduces the intelligentsia’scriticism about the political tutelage, elaborates the intelligentsia’s original intentionof improving politics and the constitutional pursuit,and extracts the intelligentsia’sconstitutional thoughts and the thinking trend in improving the political.Based on the time,the paper summaries the change in constitutional concept ofthe intelligentsia under the grave national crisis. In the face of the Japanese invasionand the unrest of the country, constitutional concept has changed inside theintelligentsia，and the intelligentsia has come up with many transformation plans ofthe society and the politics, and reflects the contradiction of the intelligentsia whenthey tried to stick to the constitutional road in the national crisis conditions. In theprocess of drawing the constitution, the intelligentsia tried to stick to w esternconstitutional model,discusse how to draw a constitution systematically,based on theperspective of preserving democracy,and putting forward some rational suggestionsunder the condition of the Kuomintang had an absolute monopoly of the power ofenacting the constitution.In the last,the paper analyzes the choices and the changes of the path choice toadopt the constitution when the intelligentsia was subject to themselves and thesituation in China, and outlines the historic significance about the thoughtfulness ofadopting the constitution, the thinking establishing a constitution of the intelligentsia is highly regarded for its value and influence,there is great room for enquiring intoChina’s constitutional government in the future, and providing certain reference forthe current political development.