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SECTION II — DESCRIPTIVE

CHAPTER XVII

THE EMPEROR

(a) The Succession: conferring Imperial Powers, Titles, Insignia; Term of Office

400. Eligibility and the Succession.

401. Method of granting Imperial Powers. The essential acts in conferring the imperial power were the passage

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