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This book is a collection of the author's essays. The author refers to himself as "loose essays", but in fact most of his work focuses on party politics in the early Republic of China, two legendary figures in the political arena, Li Liejun and Feng Yuxiang, and women. Among them, there are certainly no shortage of new theories or highlights.

Constitutionalism, that is, constitutional politics, is also democratic politics. It is a kind of politics that manages the country and society by formulating the country's fundamental law - the constitution, which is fundamentally different from the feudal autocratic system. From a broad world historical perspective, constitutionalism is the product of the modern bourgeois revolution and one of the main contents of the anti-feudal struggle in the early stages of the bourgeois revolution. Based on the history of the development of Chinese constitutionalism, this book details the development of constitutionalism in several historical stages including the "preparatory constitutionalism" in the late Qing Dynasty, the practice of constitutionalism in the early Republic of China, the "government training" and "constitutionalism" of the Nanjing National Government, and the new-democratic constitutionalism implemented by the Communist Party of China. It also discusses Sun Yat-sen's constitutionalism thought, the constitutionalism advocates of the national bourgeoisie, and the new-democratic constitutionalism theory, etc., Which completely presents the entire development of China's constitutionalism over the past century.