JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor




History is past Politics and Politics present History.--_Freeman_

NINTH SERIES

IX

THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN, 1853-1881

BY TOYOKICHI IYENAGA, PH. D.

Professor of Political Science in Tokio Senmon-Gakko

September, 1891





CONTENTS.


INTRODUCTORY