The Study On The Secondary Annual Meeting Of The State Council For Political Consultation

The State Council for Political Consultation was the main point of late Qing's constitutionalism, which was important in china history. The State Council for Political Consultation consisted of two kinds of men ,the one of which derived from election and the other of which were appointed by the emperor. The state council for Political Consultation took holding annual meeting as a main form.Among those annual meetings, the secondary annual meeting came off when the Revolution of 1911 broke out. In a difficult situation, the congressmen made use of the opportunity to discuss and pass a series of important prosposals or subjects. The important constitution bill and the disbanding of the royal cabinet were the representations ,and so on. Compared to the first annual meeting, the prosposals or subjects in the secondary annual meeting could be seen as a breakthrough in china history. This could not only be attributed to the fact that a lot of contents in the secondary annual meeting firstly emergyed in history, but also rooted in a reality that those activities carried by The State Council for Political Consultation themselves broke throught the confinement on The State Council for Political Consultation by the Qing government and possessed politic modernization imply.However, during the the Revolution of 1911, The State Council for Political Consultation and its men did not achieve them goals, because of the influence of history. Then the validity and authority of the Qing government were destoried by the revolution. The State Council for Political Consultation also lost the turst and surpport from the people and the congressmen diverged from each other. these phenomenon caused the State Council for Political Consultation not to active as a representative country institution. In the end, the State Council for Political Consultation withered away when the Qing emperor abdicated.