The Constitutional Activities Study Of Zhejiang Province(1921-1926)

On May 31 st in Ten years of the Republic of China,the Zhejiang Provincial Assembly announced 19 articles of the Organic Law of the Constitutional Conference of Zhejiang Province,issued a constitutional declaration,and officially announced the formulate of the provincial constitution.The Formulating Constitutional Activities of Zhejiang Province began.The outbreak of activities in Zhejiang province is not only a direct reaction of the autonomy ideological trend in the early Republic of China,but also an attempt by the Zhejiang Constitutionalists to reconstruct the country under weak central conditions.It was also stimulated by the constitutional activities of Hunan Province in the nine years of the Republic of China,and Zhejiang's localization movement has been relevant since the late Qing Dynasty.Under the influence of multiple factors,Zhejiang Province has promulgated the constitutions of three provinces,which surpassed Hunan and became the representative area for the local provincial constitutional activities.However,The Formulating Constitutional Activities of Zhejiang Province were not smooth.As early as the drafting period,they were caught in a struggle between factions and interests.They were widely constrained and were struggling.The first provincial constitution that was subsequently formulated was then opposed by all parties,and failed at last.The constitutional enthusiasm of the Zhe People's Court was still in place.Then the slogan of “All People Constituent Constitution” was wrote and the second constitutional declaration was announced.However,due to the over-pursuit of “all citizens' participation”,the second constitutional drafting lacked operability and only stopped at the third reading stage and did not really implement it.As the Zhejiang people's enthusiasm faded,the “Republic of China Constitution”was promulgated in 1923 and the “provincial self-proclaimed provincial autonomy law” was written into the national constitution.Therefore,the Zhejiang people made the third constitutional decision.At this time,however,it was late Beiyang Warlords.Warlords competed for power and social was in a state of turmoil.As the Northern Warlord Sun Chuanfang moved into Zhejiang in 1926,the third provincial constitution finally declared bankruptcy.From this perspective,although the Constitution of the three provinces of Zhejiang,which was launched six years ago,condenses the enthusiasm and efforts of the Zhejiang people in constitution-making constitution,due to the factors of all parties,there is not a real implementation.Its failure makes us see clearly and peacefully.A stable political environment,timely interest synergies with the factions,appropriate political wisdom,and timely evaluation of the importance of democratic political construction.Each era has its own voice.The Zhejiang Constitutional Act was the curtain ending of the Northern War of the Republic of China.With the victory of the Northern Expedition and the reopening of the Great Unification era,it shows us the bankruptcy of the road of federalism and the province's self-government in China.However,Zhejiang Province also has historical value worth exploring.The idea of democratic decentralization and people-oriented thinking embodied in the provincial constitutional texts,the enthusiastic constitutional spirit of Zhejiang,and the efforts made to salvage the current situation in reconstructing the country are all examples of their historical values.It is worth our excavation and refinement.