변법운동시기 개혁파의 의회제도 개설과 立憲君主制 논의

Abstract

The political opinion reformists asserted during the Reformist Movement are the core values that fits their two political doctrines, which are establishing parliament and Enactment of Constitution. The assertion for the foundation of parliament, which is based on people’s suffrage, is historically significant in that it made a breakthrough that breaks the lock so called Emperor centeredBRbureaucratic system.BR Also, even though the modernistic constitutional monarchy system reformists like Kang Yu Wei demanded was not close to that of Britain, it still can be said that it is almost as good as those of Germany and Japan at the time. Of course, reformists turned to senate based political route after Kang Yu Wei’s Sixth Memorial to the Throne, but they never rejected the political idea of establishing elected lower house; they simply delayed the time of its foundation to after the foundation of bureau of institution(制度局, Senate) and enacting ktroyierte constitution, and set it aside as future goal. Although, this never reached to the point of ultimate rejection of monarchy like popular sovereignty, it was still historical event in that it was the first political experiment that led to procedural democratic era, which was totally different from the highly concentrated absolute monarchy.