Commission for Studying Constitutional Government

{{Short description|Late Qing reform commission}}

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| title = Commission for Studying Constitutional Government

| label1 =Shortened to|data1=CSCG

| label2 = Simplified Chinese|data2={{linktext|宪|政|编|查|馆}}

| label3 = Traditional Chinese|data3={{linktext|憲|政|編|查|館}}

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The Commission for Studying Constitutional Government{{cite book|title=Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kb0IV7u0yMC&pg=PA280|year=2008|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-7950-0|pages=280–}} (shortened to CSCG;{{cite book|author1=Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik|author2=Agnes S. Schick-Chen|author3=Sascha Klotzbucher|author4=Sascha Klotzbücher|title=As China Meets the World: China's Changing Position in the International Community|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r6S6AAAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Austrian Academy of Sciences Press|isbn=978-3-7001-3644-6|pages=101–}} {{zh|s=宪政编查馆|t=憲政編查館}}), also known as Constitution Compilation Commission,{{cite book|author1=Yun Zhao|author2=Michael Ng|title=Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ek4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2092|year=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-18200-4|pages=2092–}} was an organ responsible for constitutional affairs in the whole country during the preparation of the constitution during the late Qing dynasty.{{cite book|title=Historical Archives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lwoIp061tl8C|year=2007|publisher=Historical Archives Magazine Agency|pages=110–}}

Constitution Compilation Commission was established by the Qing court in 1907, and its forerunner was the "Committee for Studying the Ways of Government" (考察政治馆) set up by the Qing government in 1905.{{cite book|title=Qing History Atlas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6fKCAAAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Forbidden City Press|pages=150–}}

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