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Association of Volunteers for the Establishment of a National Assembly, to set up its headquarters in Nishikonya-cho, Tokyo, to have each political association write up and share a proposal for a draft constitution before the next conference, and to not disband the association until a national assembly had come into being. After the conference, a number of influential draft constitutions were prepared throughout the country including the Itsukaichi Kenpo and the Toyo Dai Nihonkoku Kokken An.
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Establishment of a National Assembly was opened on 10 November 1880 in Tokyo at a former branch of the Aikokusha. 64 people participated, representing political associations from 24 prefectures in all parts of the country, and the signatures of about 13,000
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but the government refused to recognize their right to petition and turned it down. What's more, on 5 April the government enacted the Public
Assembly Ordinance, a law restricting freedom of association and assembly, as a Dajokan Proclamation, and they clamped down on and repressed the Freedom and
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At the conference it was decided to found the League for the
Establishment of a National Assembly for enlarging and developing the organization. Thus, the fourth conference of the Aikokusha was rebranded as the first conference of the League for the Establishment of a National Assembly. A 19-point
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Association's third conference in October 1881 was discussion of the draft constitutions drawn up by their members. In addition, during the first two days of October talks were undertaken between the leaders of the Liberal Party Preparation Committee and the Great
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Hironaka Kono was selected as chair, and then a "Victim Relief Act" was enacted providing for support to individuals and their families who had been subject to oppression due to their involvement in the campaign. Furthermore, a council book was approved resolving to change the
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was ousted from the government in the
Political Crisis of 1881. In order to deflect mounting criticism, the government promulgated on 12 October 1881 the Imperial Edict on the Establishment of a National Assembly to take effect in the year 1890. The activists of the Freedom and People's Rights
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was selected to chair the meeting with Tatsui Baba as co-chair. On 19 October the party pledge and rules were written up and on 29 October the
Liberal Party came into being with Taisuke Itagaki being elected as the party's president and Nobuyuki Nakajima as vice-president.
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Association of Volunteers for the Establishment of a National Assembly with an eye to bringing together the two organizations and forming a new political party. Kaneaki Hayashi of the Association's standing committee played a leading role in the negotiations.
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Three years later, in September 1878 the Aikokusha was revived and a conference was held. At its third conference held in November 1879 it was decided to engage in canvassing throughout Japan and collect signatures for a petition to establish a national assembly.
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establishment of a national assembly. Kenkichi Kataoka was selected to chair the meeting with Yukizumi Nishiyama as co-chair. On March 17, they moved their meeting hall to Taiyu Temple and continued proceedings until 9 April.
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People's Rights Movement. However, the forces who had built up the liberal movement resisted the government's actions. The movement experienced as upsurge as citizens individually put forward petitions to the government.
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agreement was drawn up according to which the League resolved to set up a standing committee for the purpose of maintaining contact between the political associations of each region, to present their petition to the
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Movement, judging that they had succeeded in their objective, shelved their discussion of the draft constitutions and the majority agreed that they ought to create a political party.
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