Abstract: In 1910, the elected councilors of the Advisory Couneil were a powerful force advocating constitutionalism. The Constitutionalists, as representatives of entire people of China advocated the rapid convention of the proposed National Parliament given the crisis of national salvation. For this reason, the Constitutionalists proposed motions，interrogated government officials and impeached the prime minister. They even openly and radically criticized the emperor’s instructions as “conducting despotism on behalf of constitutionalism.” This was unprecedented in the two thousand year history of China’s feudal and despotic society. However, the Constitutionalists did not dare nor did they wish to break with the Qing dynasty never mind instigate an armed revolution. This represents the limitations and tragedy of the Chinese national bourgeois in a semi-feudal and semi一colonial society.