明治初期的政府采取了比较开明的政策,此时启蒙思想家对西方近代的政治和法律思想进行了广泛传播。19世纪70年代后期,日本爆发了一场广泛的群众性政治运动,即自由民权运动。在这场运动中,部分知识分子和民众提出了许多对宪法的构想,这对明治宪法的制定产生了重大影响。 In the early Meiji period, the government adopted a relatively liberal policy. At this time, enlightenment thinkers spread the political and legal thoughts in the modern West extensively. In the late 1870s, a widespread mass-political campaign broke out in Japan, the Free Civil Rights Movement. During this campaign, many intellectuals and the general public put forward many conceptions about the constitution, which exerted a great influence on the formulation of the Meiji constitution.