Constitutional government is party government.

立憲政体は政党政治なり。

Ōkuma Shigenobu

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Ōkuma Shigenobu

Meiji-Taisho statesman (1838-1922). Twice prime minister, founder of Waseda University, champion of parliamentary rule. Lost his leg to a bomb in 1889 and issued the controversial Twenty-One Demands on China in 1915.

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