| American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1889 - 810 pages
...reasonable security against the fate of Dom Pedro II. in the declaration made in Chapter i, Article i : "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." The area of the Empire is 24,794.36 square ;•/, each of 5.9552 square miles. The proportion of cultivated... | |
| Hirobumi Itō - Constitutional history - 1889 - 312 pages
...national polity is by no means changed by it, but is more strongly confirmed than ever. ARTICLE I. ' The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. Since the time when the first Imperial Ancestor opened it, the country has not been free from occasional... | |
| Japan - Japan - 1889 - 32 pages
...Viscount ENOMOTO TAKEAKI, MinisterofSlale for Communications. CHAPTER I. — THE EMPEROR. ARTICLE I. — The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages elernal. ARTICLE II. — The Imperial Throne shall be succeeded to by Imperial male descendants, according... | |
| Japan - Constitutions - 1889 - 74 pages
...State for Communications. CONSTITUTION. CHAPTER I. THE EMPEROR. ARTICLE I. The Empire of Japan shall he reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. ARTICLE II. The Imperial Throne shall be succeeded to by Imperial male descendants, according to the... | |
| 1890 - 880 pages
...exception in the history of monarchies. This fact was strongly emphasized in Article 1 by stating that '' the Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of emperors unbroken for ages eternal." Under this chapter the royal prerogatives are summarized as concisely as possible in a few articles,... | |
| Japan - 1892 - 568 pages
...Heavenly Spirits witness this Our Solemn Oath." The first article in the Constitution states that, " the Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." Mr. Arinori Mori, formerly Japanese Minister at Washington and London, and at the time of his assassination... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1893 - 356 pages
...Heavenly Spirits witness this Our Solemn Oath." The first article in the Constitution states that, " the Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." Mr. Arinori Mori, formerly Japanese Minister at Washington and London, and at the time of his assassination... | |
| Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - China - 1894 - 524 pages
...eternal.' Article I. repeats the same consolatory fiction, while projecting it into an endless future : ' The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal.' In the Imperial oath, taken at the promulgation of the new Constitution, the Emperor said : ' That... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1894 - 508 pages
...forever assume the duty of allegiance to the present Constitution. CHAPTER I. The Emperor. Article 1. The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. Art. 2. The Imperial Throne shall be succeeded to by Imperial male descendants, according to the provisions... | |
| China - 1894 - 562 pages
...same consolatory fiction, while projecting it into an endless future : ' The Empire of Japan shall K reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal.' In the Imperial oath, taken at the promulgation of the new Constitution, the Emperor said : ' That... | |
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