This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... of art and logic."4 Like the French, the Japanese nation is too apt to embarrass itself with wording, logic, classification, simplicity, and comprehensiveness, in an attempt to form a code, no matter whether constitutional or statutory. In this respect the Japanese nation is far from resembling the English who have left the different parts of their constitution just where the wave of history had deposited them, having never attempted to bring them' together, to classify or complete them or to make a consistent and coherent whole. It should be remembered, however, that the resemblance of the Japanese constitution to the French is simply in form, and not in spirit. When we consider its spirit and fundamental principles, we can easily perceive that the one is as far separated from the other as the heavens are from the earth. 1 C/. the preface to Ito's Commentaries on japanese Constitution. ' Cf." Ilbert, Legislative /lletlzods and Forms. ' Boutmy, Constitutional Law, p. 50. 4 Boutmy, op. cit., p. 6. 91. We insist that the Constitution of Japan, like that of England, shares the nature of a treaty--a treaty between the Emperor and the people; for it is the outcome of prolonged agitation for liberty on the part of the people. But the treaty was formed in an extraordinary manner, namely, the Emperor ordained it without consulting the people on its content, while the people tacitly agreed to give it binding power out of respect for tradition, by which we mean to refer chiefly to the spirit of loyalty, the time-honored custom of respecting the Emperor. Now the essential characteristic of a treaty pure and simple is not to bring down everything to a few simple axioms and to follow them out to their logical consequences....

Excerpt from Studies in the Social Sciences, 1912-1916, Vol. 4: Continuation of Studies in Sociology, Economics, Politics, and History This fact leads to a discussion of terms. For the stage of military Operations just mentioned, the terms military occupa tion, belligerent occupation, hostile occupation, or follow ing the French usage, simply occupation, have been indis criminately employed. During the last few years we have heard much of the military occupation of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines by the United States, and of China by the united powers. Yet each case represents a different phase of occupation. Speaking more precisely only the last mentioned is a case in point throughout, such as is contemplated in our subject, though the other cases are analogous up to the signing of the treaty of peace with Spain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.