 | Asia - 1920 - 960 pages
...document the boast of Louis XIV, "L'etat c'est mot", transcends rhetoric and comes to be theology. "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors for ages eternal," reads the first article. Prince Ito, in his Commentaries on the Constitution of... | |
 | Frederic Abernethy Coleman - China - 1918 - 324 pages
...government of the country and of His subjects." ARTICLE i of the Japanese Constitution provides that "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." Through the Constitution of Japan the Japanese Emperor exercises the legislative power, the executive... | |
 | Asia - 1919 - 1090 pages
...Emperor," contains seventeen articles, only one of which, the first, is of native origin. It runs : "The empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of emperors unbroken for ages eternal." Here is expresed clearly the myth cherished by the Court throughout the feudal period, and except for... | |
 | William Franklin Willoughby - Political science - 1919 - 488 pages
...subjects be permitted to attempt any alteration thereof. Article I of the Constitution itself reads: The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. Baron Ito, in his " Commentaries on the Constitution of the Empire of Japan," explains the meaning... | |
 | Amos Shartle Hershey, Susanne Wilcox Hershey - Japan - 1919 - 404 pages
...fundamental principle of Japanese statecraft is the Divine Right of the Emperor and of the Imperial Dynasty. "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal.f "The Emperor is sacred and inviolable. "The Emperor is the head of the Empire, combining... | |
 | Herbert Francis Wright - Constitutions - 1919 - 700 pages
...1890.1 CONSTITUTION OF U FEBRUARY 1889.2 CHAPTER I. — THE EMPEROR. ARTICLE 1. The Empire of Japan 3 shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. 1 These introductory paragraphs are reprinted from WF DODD, Modern Constitutions (Chicago, 1909), vol.... | |
 | Herbert Francis Wright - Constitutions - 1919 - 700 pages
...1890. [ CONSTITUTION OF 11 FEBBUABY 1889.2 CHAPTER I. — THE EMPEROR. ARTICLE 1. The Empire of Japan 3 shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. 1 These introductory paragraphs are reprinted from WF DODU, Modern Cotmtltutions (Chicago, 1009), vol.... | |
 | International law - 1920 - 566 pages
...order to form a more perfect union," says the opening of the Constitution under which we are shielded. "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of emperors unbroken for ages eternal," are the words with which the constitution of Japan greets us. Each in its opening expression breathes... | |
 | Hiroshi Sato - Japan - 1920 - 120 pages
...person to another, and the state is never without a recognized head. Article I of the Constitution says: "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." So far as the Constitutional provisions are concerned, there is no country where the theory of a divine... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Lindsay Rogers - Political science - 1921 - 598 pages
...8S<V«S7. CONSTITUTION OF 11 FEBRUARY 18891 CHAPTER I. — THE EMPEROR ARTICLE 1. The Empire of Japan2 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... | |
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The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. 
