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Abstract

The process in which a nation becomes a modern constitutional nation always

accompanies many problems. For example, when the Empire of Japan enacted

national basic laws such as the constitution and the parliamentary law in the

Meiji period, the laws were affected by those of Germany, Austria and France,

causing many problems.

In other words, how the constitution and the parliamentary law were related to

each other in enacting the constitution and the parliamentary law and how the

Japanese emperor and the parliament were related to each other in the empire of

Japan are raised as an important issue. That is to say, how the relationship

between the Japanese emperor and the autonomic rights of the parliament was

established becomes an important issue.

The set-up of the imperial parliament itself also is among the problems caused

by how the power of the Japanese emperor (In other words, the government)

and that of the parliament are established in the situation that the imperial

parliament resulted from many liberal civil right movements.

This study especially clarified the process in which the Meiji constitution dealt

with the law draft right and the report right of the parliament, the interpellation

right of the parliament on the government, the power of the parliament on the

budget and the infringement on the privileges of the parliament.

First, law submission right of the parliament wasn't approved at first, but later

it was approved by reexamination conference. This is the limits of the imperial

parliament which only serves as cooperator of the Japanese emperor as far as...