 This was a bicameral institution, consisting of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives. The upper chamber was made up of the imperial family and hereditary peers selected by a process of 'in-group election...  Democracy and the Japanese Government - Page 12by Hiroshi Sato - 1920 - 97 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1846 - 532 pages
...Brazils, who, placing the crown on his daughter's head, gave the country a constitutional charter, the legislature consisting of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives ; but he does not say, as he was bound to do, that the same liberal prince abolished all monkish institutions... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - Constitutional law - 1890 - 736 pages
...remarkable step was taken in 18S9 by the Emperor of Japan in respect to the establishment of a Parliament consisting of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives, the compiler has deemed it proper to insert in this edition as a matter of interest, a sketch of the constitution... | |
 | Henry Justin Roddy - Geography - 1902 - 168 pages
...with which the emperor exercises supreme executive authority. The laws are made by an Imperial Diet, consisting of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives, the latter elected by the people. Tokyo, the capital, is larger than Philadelphia and is the commercial... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 850 pages
...appointed by him; and legislative power is in the emperor and a legislature or imperial Diet of two houses consisting of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives. The House of Peers with 373 members is composed of members of the imperial family, princes, marquises,... | |
 | Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck - China - 1916 - 542 pages
...means of safeguarding official authority. Chapter III of the constitution provides for an Imperial Diet consisting of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives, the first composed of princes of the blood, nobles, and persons nominated by the Emperor. The noble orders... | |
 | Asia - 1919 - 1090 pages
...specific enactment, in the case of the imperial Diet of the nation some ten years later. The Diet is a bi-cameral legislature consisting of a house of peers and a house of representatives. The upper house is composed of the following members : — members of the royal family ; princes and marquises;... | |
 | Chin-Chou Chi - 1922 - 288 pages
...will soon be eliminated by death however. CHAPTER XI THE DIET - HOUSE OF PEERS The Japanese Diet le a bicameral legislature consisting of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives. The con•• stitution of the House of Peers is based on a profound and eclectic study of Western institutions.... | |
 | George Arthur Malcolm - Constitutional law - 1926 - 812 pages
...The Diet consists of two Houses: the upper chamber, the House of Peers, and the lower chamber, the House of Representatives. The organization and legal...powers of the Diet are provided for by the Constitution and various laws and ordinances. 14 The two Houses fail to correspond to similar bodies in Great Britain,... | |
 | Thomas Lechner - Religion - 1999 - 356 pages
...by a new despotism. and the founding of the Diet, or Parliament. This was a bicameral institution, consisting of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives. The upper chamber was made up of the imperial family and hereditary peers selected by a process of 'in-group... | |
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